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Paepe Thoon Statue

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  • Location: Flemish Brabant, Flanders, Belgium

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    February 1, 2023

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    I always thought it was a fantasy statue, but Paep Thoon was apparently once a well-known inhabitant of Leuven.

    He was the bastard son of the then pastor of Sint-Pieterskerk. …
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    May 13, 2022

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    Paep(e) Thoon (Leuven, 15th century) was a folk figure in Leuven, in the Burgundian Netherlands during the Middle Ages. Numerous stories circulated about him.
    In 1961, the city of Leuven placed a bronze statue of Paep Thoon in the Brusselsestraat, on one arm of the Dyle. Peter Vanbekbergen was the sculptor.


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    November 30, 2021

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    Inaugurated in 1991.

    Paepe Thoon, Brusselsestraat
    The hunchbacked fool figure from the fifteenth century is one of the most notorious characters in the history of Leuven. He was born with …
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