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Monument to the fallen

St. Paul's Cathedral, full name Cathédrale de la Conversion de Saint-Paul et de l'Assomption de Marie (Cathedral of the Conversion of Paul and the Assumption of Mary into Heaven), is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Liège. The Gothic basilica was built from the 13th to 15th centuries as a collegiate church and elevated to a cathedral church in 1804, succeeding the destroyed St. Lambert's Cathedral.

Also known as the Lieutenant-Médecin Joncker Quarter, the Military Hospital of Liège, or more simply, the Saint-Laurent Hospital. Founded in the 11th century, the abbey lost its religious purpose at the beginning of the 19th century when its church was destroyed in 1809. It served as a military hospital until the Battle of Waterloo, then as a barracks under the Dutch regime; in 1836, the Belgian army decided to restore it to a hospital. During the two world wars, the hospital was occupied by the Germans. At the end of September 1944, the Americans established the 15th General Hospital there. On November 24, 1944, an aerial bomb destroyed part of the hospital, killing 24 people. The Belgian army returned to the site in June 1945, which was renamed the Lieutenant-Médecin Joncker Quarter, after the heroic Liégeois of the First World War. In 1990, the Liège Military Hospital was closed and replaced by a polyclinic, which itself closed at the end of 1993.

It is a building dating from 1719 to the end of the 18th century, with a core dating back to the 16th century. The tower of the old church is integrated into the castle. Nature and

Signed on June 18, 1316, the Peace of Fexhe introduced a democratic spirit into the administration of the City and the Principality of Liège. It is the formal and legal recognition of the sharing of government between the prince and the country.

Photos taken in June 2007 and August 2009 by Philippe HAMOIR and Jean-Marc THIRYON

Today, the castle houses a 4-room gîte for 11 people. More info: https://www.letulipierdelempereur.be/

This estate was owned by the Fastré de la Neuville family, better known as Longchamps, in the mid-15th century. A first castle, the date of construction of which is unknown but of which some remains remain, remained in the Longchamps family until 1710 when Marie-Françoise de Longchamps, wife of Charles Jean-Baptiste de Fabritius, then bequeathed the property to her daughter Marie-Catherine Françoise de Fabritius. After she married Waltère de Sélys, the estate passed to the barons of Sélys-Longchamps 1 . The castle was built for Michel-Laurent de Sélys ( 1759 - 1837 ), who in 1795 , the year of the reunification of the principality of Liège with France , was president of the new municipal council of Liège and in 1800 mayor under the consulate . Michel Laurent de Sélys Longchamps was married to Marie Denise Gandolphe, born in Paris on 19 March 1777 and died at the Château de Longchamps under the Second Empire, on 28 October 1857. Marie Denise was the daughter of Mathieu Joseph Gandolphe and Denise Jacqueline d'Aran des Castans. Michel-Laurent de Sélys-Longchamps asked the Parisian architect Aimé Dubois for plans for a new castle. The project was entrusted to the Liège entrepreneur Duckers and the Parisian sculptor Mongin. The construction of the castle was completed in 1810. During the emperor's reign, magnificent parties were held there. Source: Wikipedia