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Charles De Coster
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Belgian novelist (1827–1879)

Also known as: Charles DeCoster, Charles Theodore Henri De Coster, Lamm Goedzak, Шарль де Костер, تشارلز دي كوستر, 샤를 드코스테르

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Known works

  • Flemish legends (1920)
  • Lettres à Elisa (1894)
  • The legend of the glorious adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders & elsewhere (1918)
  • Légendes flamandes (1926)
  • The glorious adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegl (1934)