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Smuggling 40,000 Manuscripts Out of Louvain by Bicycle
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Smuggling 40,000 Manuscripts Out of Louvain by Bicycle

A Vatican librarian spent the early months of the Great War quietly pedaling 40,000 manuscripts out of Belgium.

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World War IBelgiumVaticanManuscriptsCultural PreservationMedieval HistoryLouvainLibrariesMonasteriesHenri DenifleAcademic RescueWartime

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