by Peer Boselie, Sittard-Geleen and regional archives

The Jardin d’Isabelle (French for ‘Garden of Isabelle’) is called after the unreachable love of Charles Beltjens, Isabelle de Borman. Charles Beltjens (1832-1890) was a Dutch poet. He wrote his poems in French as he unfolded his poetic wings in France. He won important literature awards in Belgium and France and was in contact with famous French poets such as Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire and Sully Prudhomme, the first Nobel Prize winner in literature. Secret gardens of Sittard: Lemniscate-walk weiterlesen