The Confraternity of the
"RAT MORT^® (the dead rat),
founded in 1896 by the painters
Emile Bulcke and James Ensor
is revived at the time of the 
general assembly of 
2 December 1956

The Confraternity is composed 
of a knighthood corps and a
corps of page's.

Company of the Rat Mort (1901)

KNIGHT n° 133

The Confraternity limits itself
to 133 knights: Belgians and
foreigners having returned
of eminent services in the domain of the tourism,
folklore, gastronomy, the arts,
of the beautiful letters and the journalism, in the goal to promote the renewal of the city of Ostend as well as the glitter of
the "BALL RAT MORT^® ".

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The new KNIGHTS 2011