Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Marche-les-Dames, Namur, Belgium || Rocher du Vieux Bon Dieu

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

Peruggia wanted to bring the painting back for display in Italy "after it was stolen by Napoleon". After keeping the painting hidden in a trunk in his apartment for two years Peruggia returned to Italy with it. He kept it in his apartment in Firenze but grew impatient and was finally caught when he contacted Alfredo Geri, the owner of an art gallery in Firenze, Italy.
(21 August 1911)

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Rocher du Vieux Bon Dieu

Marche-les-Dames, Namur, Belgium.

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Saturday 17th of February 1934 (-) — King of Belgium Albert I dies in a mountaineering accident while climbing alone
Because King Albert I was an expert climber some questioned the official version of his death and suggested that the King was murdered (or even committed suicide) somewhere else and that his body had never been at Marche-les-Dames, or that it was deposited there. In 2016 DNA testing on bloodstained leaves collected from Marche-les-Dames concluded that King Albert I died at that location.