HOUFFALIZE  , a small

town occupying an elevated position (nearly ltoo ft.) in the extreme south-east of the province of Luxemburg, Belgium, much visited during the summer on account of its fine bracing air . There are the ruins of an old castle, and some remains of the still older abbey of Val Ste Catherine . The parish church dates from the 13th or 14tfr century . It contains two old black marble tombs to Thierry of Houffalize and Henri his son, the latter killed at Woeringen in 1288 . Houffalize is on the eastern Ourthe, and is connected by a steam tramway with Bourcy on the line from Libramont to Bastogne, Spa and Liege . Pop . (1904) 1486 .