François-Joseph Fétis was a Belgian musicologist, critic, teacher and composer. He was among the most influential music intellectuals in continental Europe. His enormous compilation of biographical data in the Biographie universelle des musiciens remains an important source of information today.
Fétis in 1841, by Charles Baugniet
Mons is a city and municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
Panorama of the old town
Saint Waltrude Collegiate Church and the Belfry of Mons
Troops of the paramilitary Garde Civique fire on strikers near Mons during the Belgian general strike of 1893 (Le Petit Journal, May 1893)
Canadians entering Mons in 1918