Synopsis
As Monsieur De Vlierbeck entered Antwerp, where he knew he would be an object of notice, he assumed a jaunty, self-satisfied air. Anyone seeing him which might have deceived into believing him the happiest man on earth . . . even while he suffered from the profoundest agony.
He was, he feared, about to suffer abject humiliation. This would cut him to the very heart! But there was a being in the world whom he loved better than his life or honor -- his only child, his daughter. For her, how frequently had he sacrificed his pride -- how frequently had he suffered the pangs of martyrdom!
Novelist Hendrik Conscience (1812-1883) took part in the 1830 Flemish revolution for independence from the Netherlands, and afterwards helped create a revival of Flemish letters with such novels as The Lion of Flanders and The Poor Gentleman.
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À propos de l?auteur
Henri or Hendrik Conscience (1812 - 1883) was a Belgian author. He is considered the pioneer of Dutch-language literature in Flanders, writing at a time when Belgium was dominated by the French language among the upper classes, in literature and government. Conscience fought as a Belgian revolutionary in 1830 and was a notable writer in the Romanticist style popular in the early 19th century. He is best known for his romantic nationalist novel, De Leeuw van Vlaenderen (1838), inspired by the victory of a Flemish peasant militia over French knights at the 1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs during the Franco-Flemish War.
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