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Étienne-Constantin, baron de Gerlache
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Étienne-Constantin, baron de Gerlache

Belgian statesman
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Born:
Dec. 26, 1785, Biourge, Lux. (born on this day)
Died:
Feb. 10, 1871, Brussels, Belg. (aged 85)
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Étienne-Constantin, baron de Gerlache (born Dec. 26, 1785, Biourge, Lux.—died Feb. 10, 1871, Brussels, Belg.) was a Belgian Catholic statesman and historian and a parliamentary leader in the first years of the Belgian kingdom established in 1830. He helped Leopold of Saxe-Coburg become the first king of the Belgians as Leopold I in 1831. After practicing law in Paris under the Napoleonic regime, Gerlache moved to Liège following the creation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815 and became a member of the States General (later, the National Assembly). Although he favoured maintaining the union of the Dutch and ...(100 of 231 words)

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