a popular but unlikely legend said that couques came from from the sacking of dinant in 1466. dinant was sacked by charles the bold during the liège wars. the citizens were supposedly desperate and had little to eat but flour and honey. they then decided to make a dough by mixing honey and flour. as the dough was so hard, they find that ornaments can be made out of it. one example is "dinanderie" (local ornamental brasswork). the people thereby began the tradition of giving the biscults patterns.