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 [[File:C.A._Lorentzen_-_The_Most_Terrible_Night._View_of_Kongens_Nytorv_in_Copenhagen_During_the_English_Bombardement_of_Cop_-_KMS3468_-_Statens_Museum_for_Kunst.jpg|thumb|The Great Fire of Collinebourg, depicted by an unknown painter (1730)]]
-The '''Great Fire of Collinebourg''' was the largest fire in the history of [[Collinebourg]], [[Yonderre]]. It began on the evening of 20 October 1728 and continued to burn until the morning of 23 October. It destroyed approximately 28% of the city (measured by counting the number of destroyed lots from the cadastre) and left 20% of the population homeless. The reconstruction lasted until 1737. No less than 47% of the section of the city, which dates back to the Middle Ages, was completely lost, and the 1728 fire is the main reason that few traces of medieval Collinebourg be found in the modern city. Although the number of dead and wounded was relatively low compared to the extent of the fire, the cultural losses were huge. In addition to several private book collections, 35,000 texts including a large number of unique works were lost with the [[University of Collinebourg]] library, and at the observatory on top of the university, both instruments and records were destroyed.
+The '''Great Fire of Collinebourg''' was the largest fire in the history of [[Collinebourg]], [[Yonderre]]. It began on the evening of 20 October 1728 and continued to burn until the morning of 23 October. It destroyed approximately 28% of the city (measured by counting the number of destroyed lots from the cadastre) and left 20% of the population homeless. The reconstruction lasted until 1737. No less than 47% of [[Bourgville]], which dates back to the Middle Ages and the founding of Collinebourg, was completely lost, and the 1728 fire is the main reason that few traces of medieval Collinebourg be found in the modern city. Although the number of dead and wounded was relatively low compared to the extent of the fire, the cultural losses were huge. In addition to several private book collections, 35,000 texts including a large number of unique works were lost with the [[University of Collinebourg]] library, and at the observatory on top of the university, both instruments and records were destroyed.
 The fire started on Wednesday October 20, 1728, when seven-year-old Joanus Moullin knocked over a {{wpl|Tallow|tallow candle}} whilst looking for a toy of his. Whilst such incidents were common in this period, the big difference between this and similar incidents was that the young Moullin hid in the courtyard of his home to avoid being beaten by his father, thus not informing anyone of the fire. Once the fire was reported by a nearby policeman, it had expanded to the very roof of the house in which it had started, the fire had already spread to such a degree that it could not simply be stopped by pouring buckets of water into it. The flames soon engulfed much of central [[Collinebourg]].