Lucas Bols to a stream. By 1612 the city's walls had expanded to encompass the distillery, and the stream was dug out into a canal called the because of rose nurseries in the area. Around the same time, a new stone building was constructed to house the distillery. The first official mention is in 1640 in Amsterdam town papers, where "Pieter Jacobszoon Bols" is documented as operator of "t Lootsje" on the "Rozengracht". Lucas Bols was born in 1652. His era corresponded with the Dutch golden age, when the Netherlands were a colonial power, and led the world in international commerce. The
Eric de Kuyper with Chantal Akerman on the screenplays for her "La captive" ("The Captive"; 2000) and "Demain on déménage" ("Tomorrow We Move"; 2004) and she later cast him in a supporting role in her "Die Blutgräfin". Eric de Kuyper's fiction has been translated to French, Italian, and Hungarian, one short story to English. Eric de Kuyper Eric de Kuyper (born 1942) is a Flemish-Belgian and Dutch writer, semiologist, art critic, and experimental film director. Fictionalized autobiographical novels, written in the 3rd-person, account for most of his creative work. His academic writing encompasses reviews, essays, articles, and books on semiotics, film, dance, theater,