1. Alice Nahon was the third child in a family of eleven children.
11 Facts About Alice Nahon
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Alice Nahon's father, Gerard L Nahon, was born in the Netherlands but of Huguenot origin.
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Alice Nahon's mother, Julia Gijsemans, was born in Putte, nearby Mechelen, where Alice spent much time during her childhood.
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Alice Nahon went to the primary school at the Oude God and from 1911 she went to the School for Agriculture in Overijse, where she graduated.
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Alice Nahon still studied at the Akademie van Antwerpen and literature classes of Pol De Mont, but during the following years she had to spend much of her time in sanatoria, and from 1917 she stayed at the Sint-Jozefsinstituut for six years, in Tessenderlo.
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Alice Nahon became depressive and started reading her favorite poets, such as Guido Gezelle, and writing her own poems was her only consolation.
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Alice Nahon's poems testify of a love for nature, admiration for simple things and grieve for own and interwoven with other people's suffering, and with a religious inspiration.
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Alice Nahon enjoyed her regained freedom, traveled as a celebrated poet through Flanders and the Netherlands and made many friends among artists.
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Alice Nahon lived at the picturesque vault house of the medieval castle Cantecroy at Oude-God.
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Alice Nahon's health deteriorated and she spent the last year of her life at her apartment in the Carnotstraat in the centre of Antwerp.
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Alice Nahon's grave is located on the Schoonselhof Cemetery in Antwerp.