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    Little Philippe of Belgium
    Little Philippe of Belgium
    Little Philippe of Belgium
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    Little Philippe of Belgium

    By Madeline Brandeis

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 2005
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      Little Philippe of Belgium - Madeline Brandeis

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      Title: Little Philippe of Belgium

      Author: Madeline Brandeis

      Release Date: September 24, 2012 [EBook #40856]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITTLE PHILIPPE OF BELGIUM ***

      Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Joke Van Dorst and the

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      Little Philippe of Belgium

      LITTLE PHILIPPE OF BELGIUM

      LITTLE PHILIPPE

      of BELGIUM

      BY

      MADELINE BRANDEIS

      Author of

      Little Indian Weaver

      The Wee Scotch Piper

      The Little Dutch Tulip Girl

      The Little Swiss Wood-Carver

      Photographic Illustrations Made in Belgium by the Author

      GROSSET & DUNLAP

      publishers new york

      By Arrangement with the A. Flanagan Company

      copyright, 1930, by a. flanagan company

      printed in the united states of america

      When I began to write these stories about children of all lands I had just returned from Europe whither I journeyed with Marie and Ref. Maybe you don't know Marie and Ref. I'll introduce them: Please meet Marie, my very little daughter, and Ref, my very big reflex camera.

      These two are my helpers. Marie helps by being a little girl who knows what other little girls like and by telling me; and Ref helps by snapping pictures of everything interesting that Marie and I see on our travels. I couldn't get along without them.

      Several years have gone by since we started our work together and Marie is a bigger girl—but Ref hasn't changed one bit. Ref hasn't changed any more than my interest in writing these books for you. And I hope that you hope that I'll never change, because I want to keep on writing until we'll have no more countries to write about—unless, of course, some one discovers a new country.

      Even if a new country isn't discovered, we'll find foreign children to talk about—maybe the children in Mars! Who knows? Nobody. Not even Marie—and Marie usually knows about most things. That's the reason why, you see, though I sign myself

      I am really only                                 

      Marie's Mother.

      DEDICATION

      Because she likes scarey stories, because she likes this one best of all my books, because I like her best of all—well, just because she's my dear little daughter, I dedicate this book to

      Marie Madeleine Brandeis.

      CONTENTS

      PEOPLE WHO POSED FOR THE PICTURES

      AND SOMETHING ABOUT THEM

      Little Alden Allen looks so much like Philippe that he might have stepped right out of this book. He is also a sweet lovable little boy.

      Lionel Belmore—well, just look at his jolly round face! Isn't he Papa Pomme to perfection? Mr. Belmore is a famous English actor, and he posed for Papa Pomme because he loves to do all he can to please boys and girls.

      Craufurd Kent is another famous English actor. And although it is hard to believe, from looking at these savage photographs, he also loves boys and girls and he hopes you won't think him like Tom in real life. I can assure you he isn't a bit, except that he whistles a lot and does it beautifully.

      Seesil Anne Johnson is a talented little girl, who has worked in many motion pictures. She seems to have Zelie's sad eyes, though of course, she has no reason to be sad, and she isn't. On the contrary, she is very happy, for she has six brothers and sisters to play with.

      Suzanne Ransom is another little motion picture girl, and she is just like Philippe's Baby Rose. Don't you think so?

      Now we come to the hero of the story, Philippe de Lacy. Philippe's life itself is a story; only I could not tell it all to you, for it would take most of the pages in this book to do so. You may already know that Philippe is one of the best beloved boy-actors in the world. Perhaps you do not know that during the war, Philippe was found in a deserted village in France and adopted by a kind English nurse. She brought him to America, and today there is no happier pair in Hollywood than these two. You see what a fine boy Philippe has turned out to be. And I need not add that Miss de Lacy is a proud mother.

      In the book little Philippe's adventure started because of that war picture which he saw with his father. In real life, little Philippe's adventure also started because of the war. But in the book Philippe's experience was not pleasant and he was glad when it was over, while the real Philippe's adventure was pleasant, and we are all glad for him that it is going on and on.

      Madeline Brandeis

      VIEW OF A CANAL FROM THE ROSARY DOCK, BRUGES

      Little Philippe of Belgium

      Chapter I

      THE BRUSSELS SPROUT

      The Brussels Sprout sat among the cabbages, thinking.

      The Brussels Sprout was not a little vegetable. He was a little boy. His name was really Philippe. But he was called Petit Choux de Bruxelles (pe-tē´ shōō de brük-sel), which means in French, Little Brussels Sprout. French is spoken in Brussels, and this little boy was born in that city.

      But he now lived on a farm a few miles outside of Brussels.

      The name choux (shōō) or cabbage, is often used as a pet name. That was the reason

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