Three Centuries: The Chronicle of a Dutch Family by Van Hall, M. C.
Three Centuries: The Chronicle of a Dutch Family by Van Hall, M. C.

Three Centuries: The Chronicle of a Dutch Family

Three Centuries is the captivating and once in awhile intense story about eight members of the Van...
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Author: M. C. Van Hall
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Three Centuries: The Chronicle of a Dutch Family by Van Hall, M. C.

Three Centuries: The Chronicle of a Dutch Family

$40.27
Three Centuries: The Chronicle of a Dutch Family by Van Hall, M. C.

Three Centuries: The Chronicle of a Dutch Family

$40.27
Author: M. C. Van Hall
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Three Centuries is the captivating and once in awhile intense story about eight members of the Van Hall family, who, from father to son, narrate their experiences. It starts in 1660 around Arnhem; then Leiden and Vianen. And finally Amsterdam, where Maurits Cornelis (1768 - 1858), the patriarch of the Amsterdam Van Halls, settled in 1787.

It becomes clear to the reader why Maurits van Hall, although initially a Patriot in the battle against Napoleon, started to consider Orange as the symbol of our national unity and liberation.

This does not apply to his oldest brother Adriaan Teyler van Hall because, he with his friend Engel van de Stadt, became pirates. He stayed anti-English and anti-Orange.

A persistent legend is settled that Jan Dereck baron van Capelle was murdered by a poison letter sent to him by a high placed political opponent. Years later Government-Minister Floris van Hall was also accused of getting rid of opponents through this method, but he was never charged.

A separate chapter is devoted to the R veil and the Separatists. Jointly with Anne Maurits Cornelis (1818 - 1844) we first meet Da Costa, Koenen, Capadose and de Clercq and later Reverend Scholte and Reverend Budding. The shameful persecution of the Separatists was forcefully denounced by Anne Maurits.

Later, in the classic liberal period, the reader is taken along to grand parties in the curve of the Herengracht. Dinners with twelve courses This a lovely period in the history of the family. Only a few of them realized at that time that the origins of the liberal period contained the seeds of it's dissolution and that change was coming soon.

This brings us to World War Two and Walraven van Hall (1906 - 1945), the "Oiler" and ultimately the Minister - President of the Dutch Resistance. In 2018 a movie was made about his life "Resistance Banker" available on Netflix.

There is also a chapter devoted to the city of Hattem, where in the beginning of the century the various revolutions had not yet arrived and life had the imprint of the Middle Ages.

?As is often the case, the "little" personal histories win out from the official historiography. In particular because the Van Halls are entertaining story tellers who do not take themselves all the time too seriously, although it is funny to read how they could get all excited about events, that in the framework of history was of little or no significance.



Author: M. C. Van Hall
Publisher: Xlibris Us
Published: 05/30/2018
Pages: 152
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.35d
ISBN: 9781524529864

About the Author
Maurits Cornelis van Hall was born in 1901 in Naarden, The Netherlands and died in 1965 in Bentveld, The Netherlands. He studied in Zurich, Switzerland and then joined the Royal Netherlands Steamship Company. After being stationed in South America he returned to the Netherlands. In addition to his maritime work, he became President of the Hospital Church Ship "De Hoop", which followed the fishing fleets providing medical and spiritual services to all nationalities in the North Sea. He was Knighted (Officier in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau) in 1955.


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