In the other match, Ivan Perisic's stoppage-time equalizer gave Bruges a deserved 2-2 draw at Toulouse.
"Bruges-La-Morte, " a tale of obsessive love, is a Symbolist novel, perhaps the Symbolist novel.
Flemish oil painting was born out of manuscript illumination, of which Bruges was a great centre.
Although "Bruges-La-Morte" enjoyed considerable success in its day, it lost much of its appeal for succeeding generations.
So diversified did it become that its Bruges branch, in today's Belgium, even helped to recruit choirboys.
"Bruges-La-morte" is distinguished for another reason: It appears to be the first work of fiction illustrated with photographs.
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Because these waterways were the arteries of trade, Bruges became rich during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
When, during his apprenticeship in Bruges, Meaume meets Nanni, an alderman's daughter, the two fall in love at once.
Toulouse are two points behind leaders Shakhtar with Bruges three points further back.
But the portrait also captures that identification with Bruges that is a dominant theme in so much of Rodenbach's work.
Macau also received a Harbin clone, and the annual festival in Bruges has enlisted the help of Chinese artists.
If Bruges is the medieval jewel of Flanders, then Antwerp is the city that stole its trade and its thunder.
Thatcher warned an audience at the College of Europe, in the Belgian city of Bruges, against creating an "identikit European personality".
As does Lien Cappelle, back in her home in Bruges, now with an extra 300 euros in her pocket each month.
Rodenbach's brief novel centers on Hugues Viane, a middle-age widower who, distraught at his wife's death several years before, moves to Bruges.
To meet the need of so many visitors, Bruges has exploded with small guesthouses where you can dial into any period look.
Drink a beer in Bruges and you are actually touching history, as those brewing traditions are as ancient as the city itself.
One of the women, Mathilde (Thekla Reuten, the fine Dutch actress who played the hotel owner in "In Bruges"), is an assassin, too.
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With few exceptions, these are deserted views of Bruges in which the architecture is mirrored with perfect symmetry in the still waters of the canals.
But the advantage for the Belgians, having created cities like Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp, is that they were all connected by this network of waterways.
In this image, Rodenbach rises up against the twilit background of the Flemish city of Bruges, whose medieval houses and towers stand above its immemorial canals.
Crime movie In Bruges, directed by Martin McDonagh, is up for the film award, along with Hunger - director Steve McQueen's depiction of IRA prisoner Bobby Sands.
And Barry Legg, of the Conservative eurosceptic Bruges Group said it effectively meant "the end of David Cameron's promise to hold a referendum on the EU Constitution".
For centuries, the ceremony has played an important role in expressing the identity of Bruges s inhabitants and in facilitating encounters with people from outside the city.
The art market in Florence at that time was not as big as in Antwerp and Bruges, and there were only a third as many painters as in Bruges.
"Bruges-La-Morte" is thoroughly modern in tone, theme and form.
The painting was completed in 1895, three years before Rodenbach's death and three years after the publication of "Bruges-La-Morte, " the novel for which he is remembered today, if he is remembered at all.
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