A Short History of Belgium. E-book. Formato PDF Leon Van Der Essen   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The national culture Of Belgium is a synthesis, if I may so call it, where one finds the genius of two races — the Romance and the Germanic — mingled, yet modified by the imprint of the distinctively Belgian. It is in that very receptivity — the fact that it has absorbed and unified the best elements of Latin and Teutonic civilization — that the originality of the Belgian national culture resides.