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===========================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc.</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L Cross-Cultural<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font size="2">In our low countries we have had quite some people who wrote
or sung in an other language that that of their region and still became
famous.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">I guiess one can come to a long inventory, just some I had in
mind:</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">The Dutch writer, Belle van Zuylen (wrote in French)<br><a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_van_Zuylen" target="_blank">http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_van_Zuylen</a><br>
<a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle_de_Charri%C3%A8re" target="_blank">http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle_de_Charrière</a></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Flemish writer Maeterlinck (wrote in French)</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maeterlinck" target="_blank">http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maeterlinck</a><br><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Maeterlinck" target="_blank">http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Maeterlinck</a><br>
(Nobel
price 1911)</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Flemish writer Verhaeren (wrote in French)</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Verhaeren" target="_blank">http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Verhaeren</a><br><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verhaeren" target="_blank">http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verhaeren</a></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Georges Rodenbach, of the West-Flemish family (wrote in French)</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Rodenbach" target="_blank">http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Rodenbach</a><br><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Rodenbach" target="_blank">http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Rodenbach</a></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">not to mix with the Flemish romantic writer Albrecht Rodenbach<br><a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_Rodenbach" target="_blank">http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_Rodenbach</a></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">nor with the beer-brewer Alexander Rodenbach<br><a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Rodenbach" target="_blank">http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Rodenbach</a></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The brwery has been taken over by Palm but the red Rodenbach is still doing
well.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">A Dutch singer, making career in France:<br><a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_%28zanger" target="_blank">http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_(zanger)</a><br><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave" target="_blank">http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave</a></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">A West-Flemish singer, quite popular in France:</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_%28chanteur%29" target="_blank">http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_(chanteur)</a>
<br><a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_%28zanger" target="_blank">http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_(zanger)</a></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">A Limburgish singer, quite popular in France:</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axelle_Red" target="_blank">http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axelle_Red</a><br><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axelle_Red" target="_blank">http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axelle_Red</a></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">A Brussels singer, popular everywhere:</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brel" target="_blank">http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brel</a><br><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brel" target="_blank">http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brel</a></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">A Brussels writer, steeling all credits for Tyl Ulenspiegel:<br><a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Coster" target="_blank">http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Coster</a><br>
<a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_De_Coster" target="_blank">http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_De_Coster</a></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">A Dutch writer, who switched to US-English:</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_de_Hartog" target="_blank">http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_de_Hartog</a></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_de_Hartog" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_de_Hartog</a></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">A Limbugish writer, who left our good county of Loon for Thüringen<br><a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_van_Veldeke" target="_blank">http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_van_Veldeke</a><br>
<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_von_Veldeke" target="_blank">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_von_Veldeke</a></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">A Dutch singer, popular in Germany, but living in Gemmenich, Belgium<br><a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heintje" target="_blank">http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heintje</a><br>
<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heintje" target="_blank">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heintje</a></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">A Dutch show presentator who got better pay in Germany<br><a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudi_Carrell" target="_blank">http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudi_Carrell</a><br>
<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudi_Carrell" target="_blank">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudi_Carrell</a></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I guess many other names can be added.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Including H21 or Mata Hari.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mata_Hari" target="_blank">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mata_Hari</a></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Regards,</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Roger</div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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