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Excerpt from Some Modern Belgian Writers: A Critical Study
That is relating history from too romantic a point of view. Max Waller died of typhoid fever complicated by heart disease and his consumptive tendencies. As for Rodenbach, his exile can hardly be called one, for if he was well received in Paris, he remained to the last popular in Belgium. The only unkind note comes from one of his comrades, jules Destree, who credits him with la prudence d'un lapin blond.
We admit that for a long time the Belgian bourgeoisie rebelled against all intellectual culture, in that it is like many another bourgeoisie. When Camille Lemonnier writes: I assure you that at the time when Baude laire visited Brussels, and even a long time afterwards, these ideas would have appeared singularly paradoxical, no one imagines that it would be otherwise to-day. The idea that, say, rhythm and style are the movement of a mind in correspondence with the universe, is an idea which will never enter the head of the ordinary plain honest bourgeois who is very much taken up with his business, and whose relaxation is a game of dominoes with a glass of beer in a café.
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