La Dame aux loups
The lady with the wolves
The castle of Zutkerque is marked by the memory of the Lady with the Wolves, Marie-Cécile-Charlotte Lauréthan born in 1747. Initiated in the hunt by her father, married Baron Lamoral de Draëck, it turns out that she is not not made for family life and devotes himself to the passion of hunting wolves. With her forty dogs, she goes through Bredenarde and Artois. The revolution of 1789 obliges it to discretion, but the wolves return. The inhabitants of the region asked for it to be protected and can resume its hunting activities ... She died in 1823, at 75 years old.