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Borinage

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Borinage (bôrēnäzh`), region, Hainaut prov., S Belgium, surrounding Mons and extending to the French border. Traditionally a coal-mining district, most of the mines have been closed. Glass-making and metallurgy are the region's primary industries.
Borinage 

the historical name of a small region in Belgium. It is located in the southern coal basin and extends west of the city of Mons to the French-Belgian border.



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His father Theodorus Van Gogh (1822-1885) was a minister of Dutch Reformed Church and it seems that Vincent became very much interested on his father''s profession which as the result years later he chose to work as a preacher in a mining region in Belgium known as Borinage and even worked for free after he was dismissed.
In the autumn of" 1880, after more than a year living as a pauper in the Borinage, van Gogh began to study at L'Ecole des Beaux-Art in Brussels.
In 1878, Van Gogh left the seminary he'd been attending, gave away all that he had, and lived in abject poverty as a missionary to the coal mining poor of Borinage, Belgium.
 
 
 
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