August in Belgium?

Louvain is where many books were burned by an advancing army some almost hundred years ago.  Books of the day then are / were like the computers of today in a way:  single storehouses of literature, lists and informations of any kind in compact form, and many were extremely carefully published, even pamphlets of the day.  Destruction of spirit in the old days meant at least in part the destruction of literature, prose, poetry, current events news, criticism and analysis, whatever.  At least look at these pictures of Leuven which are very simple, but confirm that the town would not recover as intended from the destruction of the Great War, from virually any perspective, in those August days.  Leuven is in Belgium, and it is a small town today, insignificant in the scheme of high - technology information processing and the great scale of today as well as the other activities of the world, and let its story be a lesson to us all who harbor thoughts of harm and destruction in view of prejudices, an appetite for conflict, even brutality.  Voyons.