Lady Brussels

During my visit to Brussels I met this incredibly brave woman, Gabrielle Petit (1893-1916), at Place Saint-Jean. Inscription on the statue: To Gabrielle Petit, Shot by the Germans, 1 April 1916, and to the memory of all Belgian women who died for the country. "I have just been condemned to death. I will be shot tomorrow. Long live the King. Long live Belgium. . . . and I will show them that a Belgian woman knows how to die."