Lessines

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Lessines ( Dutch: Lessen ) is a riverside Dender Belgian city and municipality in the province of Hainaut. The municipality belongs to the French Community of Belgium and consists of the districts Lessines, Bois -de- Lessines, Deux- Acren, Ghoy, Ogy, Ollignies, Papignies and Wannebecq.

Sons and daughters of the town ( alphabetical )

  • Claude Criquielion ( b. 1957 ), cyclist
  • Pierre Groult (1895-1968), Belgian Romance
  • René Magritte (1898-1967), surrealist painter
  • Raoul Vaneigem ( born 1934 ), artist, author and philosopher of art
  • Gus Viseur (1915-1974), accordionist
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