Bemelmans

Hotel Bemelmans

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"Ludwig Bemelmans was the son of a Belgian painter, a German mother and raised in a part of Austria that is now Italy. So he started out pretty cosmopolitan - but not too rich. While he is best known for writing the Madeline children's books (Which you really have to read, at least the first), he had quite an interesting life. Hotel Bemelmans is a compilation of short auto-biographical writi..."