Les Heures Joyeuses de la ville de Bruxelles, 1920-1978
Bruno Liesen2001, Archives et bibliothèques de Belgique
On 12 November 1918, the day after the armistice, a small group of philanthropic women founded the Book Committee on Children's Libraries in New York to help in the moral and educational reconstruction of war-devastated Europe. More specifically, the committee's aim was to honour the courage of Belgian and French children during the war and to help them to take part in the reconstruction of their own country and the world. In Belgium, the first intention was to create a reading room for children in Leuven called "L'Heure Joyeuse". However, it was in Brussels that the first Heure Joyeuse was inaugurated on 24 September 1920, four years before the one in Paris. Why Brussels? Mainly because of the tenacity of a remarkable woman, Lilly Elisabeth Carter, a pedagogue of English origin born in Brussels and naturalized Belgian, director of the Brussels City's "Cours d'éducation".
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