Word: courtrai
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...Cultural Capital, Lille hopes to attract travelers from farther afield, to the city and its cross-border hinterland: the 2004 program includes festivities in Dunkerque, Calais and Boulogne-sur-Mer on the French coast, and in Courtrai, Mons and Tournai in Belgium. For more information go to www.lille2004.com
...place names of Flemish towns ring like bugles. They tell of bloody and costly battles in wars over the centuries: Courtrai, Passendale, Ypres ("Wipers" to the Tommy of World War I), and Armentiéres (whose "Mademoiselle" was invented to wipe out the memory of grimmer realities). In World War II, the tragedy and heroism of Dunkirk were played out on a Flemish beach...
...Gates, forced down near Courtrai, burned his bullet-riddled plane under his captors' noses; later escaped by jumping from a prison-train window in a German tunnel. Living on nothing but some crackers and a can of bully beef, he made his way 50 miles in four torturing days and nights to within exactly three paces of the Swiss border, where he was recaptured. But the Armistice came three days later...
Julia de Saegher, child of Courtrai in 1918, do you remember how blessed you made the Sundays of its prisoners within the white-washed walls of the gendarmerie, by your precious, timid visits and generous gifts of bread...
...Michel had opened a small restaurant in Greenwich Village. To help family finances, Julia was working as a companion to Mrs. Frederick C. Horner, wife of the assistant to the chairman of General Motors. Her two sons were in school. The two old friends lunched, talked about Courtrai, 1918. So as not to spoil their reunion, they avoided the subject of Courtrai...