Sparkling eyes, a mischievous smile and charming in her own special way… This is how Dominique Buysschaert – the driving force behind the fishmonger De Walvis in Leuven – is described by many after her death at the age of 66. Not a word exaggerated, because the ‘self-made girl’ raised perfection to an art like no other. “The bar had to be high and preferably higher and higher,” says her husband Arno. A dive into the life of a ‘Grande Dame’ who gave up her acting ambitions and developed a special friendship with the recently deceased musician Jean-Marie Aerts. “The music he played for her became the ringtone on her cell phone.”
Bart Mertens
05-05-24, 05:25
In The Life Story we highlight the lives of well-known, but also unknown Flemish people. People who have meant a lot to their loved ones or to society, captured in an ultimate portrait. A homage. With a tear, but also often with a smile.
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