It lies about half-way between Hasselt and Louvain, and is still one of the five fortified places in Belgium.
North-west of Hasselt is Beverloo, where all the Belgian troops go through a course of instruction annually.
He is probably still to be seen at Hasselt, in the South of Belgium, which was his native place.
Hasselt is best known for its great septennial fte held on the day of Assumption, August 15th.
Seidel quotes a case from Hasselt, in which a father, for the purpose of obtaining insurance money, killed his child by calomel.
