of general history and of French literature at the military school. His works however were not financially profitable; in spite of his government employment he was always in difficulties; and he died in much discouragement in May 1878 at Ixelles, Brussels and was interred there in the Ixelles Cemetery. The expensive form in which Uylenspiegel was produced made it open only to a limited class of readers, and when a new and cheap edition in modern French appeared in 1893 it was received practically as a new book in France and Belgium. He was a freemason, and a member of the lodge Les Vrais Amis de l'Union et du Progrès Réunis of the Grand Orient of Belgium, where he was initiated on 7 January 1858. The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak was illustrated by Nicolas Eekman in 1946. Bibliography Style et archaïsme dans 'La Légende d'Ulenspiegel' de Charles De Coster, Jeeeen-Marie Klinkenberg, Bruxelles, Palais des Académies, 1973. Charles De Coster, Jean-Marie Klinkenberg, Bruxelles, Labor, 1985 References External links Charles De Coster (Dutch) P. Barenboim, B. Meshcheryakov — Flanders in Moscow and Odessa:: poet Eduard Bagritskii (Bagritsky) as the Till Ulenspiegel of Russian literature. 19th-century Belgian novelists 19th-century Belgian male writers Belgian male novelists Belgian poets in French Belgian Freemasons 1827 births 1879 deaths Burials at Ixelles Cemetery Till Eulenspiegel 19th-century Belgian poets Belgian male poets Historical novelists Writers of historical fiction set in the early modern period