And Louvain is perhaps the most finished and perfect example we have in this world to-day to show the consequences of such a clash.
I am not going to try to describe Louvain.

Others have done that competently.

The Belgians were approximately correct when they said Louvain had been destroyed.

The Germans were technically right when they said not over twenty per cent of its area had been reduced; but that twenty per cent included practically the whole business district, practically all the better class of homes, the university, the cathedral, the main thoroughfares, the principal hotels and shops and cafes.

The famous town hall alone stood unscathed; it was saved by German soldiers from the common fate of all things about it.