uses. Besides the Hotel de Yille, which occupiesa large portion of its western side, and the Maison du Roi, or Brood-huis (Bread House) of which we have spoken, it contains the housesof the Brewers Guild, with a statue of Charles of Lorraine on theapex of its facade,—an outlandish decoration to… … 1-1 CO pq O 1-1a, QZ < THE PICTURE GALLERY AT BRUSSELS. 145 decorates its front is a statue of the Virgin, placed there tocommemorate the cessation of a terrible pestilence which devastatedthe city in 1625. The relief does not seem to have been so effectualas might have been hoped, for in 1627,…
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