Edouard Pagant

Shortly after Belgium's independence in 1830, the old Soignes forest was divided up between various owners. The west end, bordering the then rapidly expanding city of Brussels, was declared a public park (the Bois de la Cambre) in 1860.

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Nearly a century later, Edouard Keilig, the landscape architect in charge of the project, returns to the site, in his setting, for the time of a fiction. But what remains today of his vast and romantic project?