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the capital and largest city of Belgium; seat of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and one of two European Union Parliament buildings
- The criminal advocate, Monsieur Philippe Lheulier, nevertheless, knows a little Hebrew, which he learned in that matter of the Jews of the Rue Kantersten, at Brussels.2.7.5 — Vol 2 Bk 7 Chpt 5 — The Two Men Clothed in Black (26% in)
- There were Master Loys Roelof, alderman of the city of Louvain; Messire Clays d'Etuelde, alderman of Brussels; Messire Paul de Baeust, Sieur de Voirmizelle, President of Flanders; Master Jehan Coleghens, burgomaster of the city of Antwerp; Master George de la Moere, first alderman of the kuere of the city of Ghent; Master Gheldolf van der Hage, first alderman of the ~parchous~ of the said town; and the Sieur de Bierbecque, and Jehan Pinnock, and Jehan Dymaerzelle, etc., etc., etc.;...1.1.3 — Vol 1 Bk 1 Chpt 3 — Monsieur the Cardinal (87% in)
There are no more uses of "Brussels" in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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