“Here stood the Collège de Montaigu, founded in 1314. Erasmus of Rotterdam lived there in 1495-1496” (Ici s’élevait le Collège de Montaigu, fondé en 1314. Erasme de Rotterdam y fut pensionnaire en 1495-1496) states the plaque opposite the Panthéon in Paris. It does not say that Erasmus and the other residents spoke of the vinegar…
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Erasmus has never been in Louvain-la-Neuve
Yesterday afternoon I cycled through old, medieval Leuven, where Erasmus once lived and where I visited the Erasmus Building last October. Those streets felt familiar, but I was on my way to the new Leuven, Louvain-la-Neuve, located 25 km south. When KU Leuven became Dutch-speaking after the war, the Walloons founded a new Leuven with…