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When Louis XVIII fled during the Hundred Days, the poet Alphonse de Lamartine accompanied him to Béthune and described the entry of the king and his men into the town...

In 1835 Lamartine gave the town of Hondschoote a fountain providing water in periods of drought...

Again thanks to Lamartine on 24th November 1839 the church of the town acquired a painting of the coronation of the Vrigin of Descaines...

The following inscription can be read on the bell...