Trou Moet Blycken is a historical chamber of rhetoric over 500 years old and currently a gentlemen's club on the Grote Houtstraat in Haarlem, Netherlands.
Though the society probably goes back earlier in time, the earliest document from the archives shows that it definitely was established by 1503, so this has been historically used as the year of birth, most recently for the 500 year anniversary in 2003.[1] This was not the only chamber of rhetoric in Haarlem; The Haarlem painters Job Adriaenszoon Berckheyde and Salomon de Bray were members of the chamber called 'De Wijngaardranken'.
The front of the building is decorated with pelicans, symbolizing the "Blazoen" of the chamber itself, a pelican feeding its young.[2]
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