Flanders

He succeeded to large territories on the death of his uncle Alfonso of Poitiers, which gave him Poitou, Toulouse, Auvergne, and part of Provence, and his son, afterwards Philip IV, added fresh gains by his marriage with the little heiress of Champagne and Navarre.

The only dangerous vassals of the crown at this time were the Duke of Brittany, the Count of Flanders, and Edward I of England, who was Duke of Guyenne.

Edward took great interest in his French possessions, and by the Treaty of Amiens secured Saint-Ange and Angenet, which had been held rather precariously, and through his wife Eleanor of Castile acquired in addition the territory of Ponthieu and Montreuil in the north of France.

Philip III died as his father had done on an unsatisfactory expedition, dignified by the name of a crusade.

This dragged on a little while, but in the end, Charles of Valois gave up his claims, and the useless struggle was dropped.

The importance of the reign rests chiefly upon three great questions.

Philip's policy toward England and Flanders, interesting to us because it tended to create those strained relations which were to lead eventually to the Hundred Years' War, a memorable quarrel between king and pope, which brought much humiliation upon the papacy, and a great advance in the French constitution, which makes this reign an important landmark in the formation of the strong monarchial government of France.

Never so long as the English kings clung to their French territories was there any difficulty in finding causes of quarrel between England and France.

Like, again, we were saying before the challenges of trying to present the European politics in the same way in Estonia and in Poland and not being caught in the different local dynamics.

That's also because, and again, Belgium, we don't know what happens in Flanders because they have a different media, they have a different TV.

And so what do we have in common with a young Danish, with a young Finnish? It's the fact that we both have Netflix.

Not that we both look the same European public TV.

They are from Belgium.

They're from Arendtals, Antwerp, and Flanders in Belgium.

They formed way back in 1985.

So how many years is that? 40.

They have... veggie Thursdays in the schools that's just one day but apparently all the other days there is a great deal of options and also one of their big things is hybrid you know I know that creeps all of us out in some way they mix animal food with a really high percentage of vegetable food but I'll tell you it makes an unbelievable difference in the number of animals that are dying and And the Green Deputy Mayor, Hafsa El-Bazawi, she's actually vegan, but she thinks this is the right approach, taking this hybrid approach.

And in the Flemish government, you know, I don't understand Belgium's government, but there's both Flemish and French in Belgium, so I assume it's divided governmentally in some way.

They launched the Green Deal protein shift in 2021, which is a commitment to switch the ratio of animal-to-plant proteins consumed from 60-40 to 40-60 by 2030.

Ghent is already there, so Ghent is at the top.

I don't know if you've heard of Peter Paul Rubens.

He's this great Flemish painter of the Baroque times.

So we're in the 17th century.

And he paints these very dramatical theatrical paintings.

Like you mentioned, he was third in San Remo, behind the head-to-head sprint between Pogacar and Pidicoc.

Then in Flanders, he was fourth, working with Pedersen, trying to catch Evenepoel for a long time.

Obviously, the win at Roubaix probably...

Yeah.

Regarding them as stormtroops, the enemy tended to greet their appearance as an announcement of a coming attack.

The Canadian Corps was near Arras, and an aptly chosen fraction of it, two battalions, two casualty clearing stations, and a wireless section, was dispatched northward to Kemmel in Flanders.

Then the bulk of the Canadian Corps was filtered down to the Somme, where ingenious rumors were circulated among the British to account for their appearance.

But even then, The Canadians did not move into the line until a few hours before the assault.

It is often described as the battle which saved the Belgium city of Ypres from capture and the British Army from defeat.

On October 31, 1914, after ten days of relentless fighting in Flanders had left the Allied line on the verge of collapse, the Worcestershire Regiment, supported by the South Wales borderers, launched a counter-attack to halt the German army's breakthrough towards Ypres.

The battle successfully prevented the capture of the city, but came at great sacrifice to the 2nd Battalion.

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