____ 1. Mathilde is envious of the social class and wealth of others because a. she has never enjoyed either position or wealth b. she was born rich and wants more wealth c. her husband is very demanding d. her former classmate encourages her ____ 2.
Bruges (Dutch: Brugge) [1] is a town in Flanders, the northern part of Belgium. Relatively cosmopolitan and bourgeois given its compact size, it is one of the best preserved pre-motorised cities in Europe and offers the kind of charms rarely available elsewhere.
In 1896, Leopold II, King of the Belgians, cut a canal through the flat Flemish countryside, 10 miles from Bruges to the sea. Completed in 1907, the canal brought new prosperity to Western Flanders.But for this city it was 400 years too late.EAD: BRUGES is a city for those infatuated by the lost past, because it is not lost there. Brussels, Belgium's hustling capital, the seat of NATO and of the E.E.C.'s bureaucrats, is the gateway to Europe, as its airport proclaims. But some 30 miles...