Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Jan-Baptist Verlooy, List of Mayors of the City of Brussels, Charles Buls, Adolphe Max, Nicolas-Jean Rouppe, Jules Anspach, Guillaume-Hippolyte Van Volxem, Andr-Napolon de Fontainas, Franois-Xavier de Donnea, Charles de Brouckre, Freddy Thielemans, Lucien Cooremans, Charles Lemonnier, Franois-Jean Wyns de Raucourt, Joseph Van de Meulebroeck, Pierre Van Halteren, Emile de Mot, Herv Brouhon, Felix Vanderstraeten. Excerpt: Adolphe Max Adolphe Eugne Jean Henri Max (Brussels, 30 December 1869 6 November 1939) was a Belgian liberal politician and Mayor of Brussels from 1909 until his death. He graduated in law at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, and entered the legal profession, besides doing journalistic work. When he was 25 years old, he was appointed provincial counsel for Brabant, and became a communal counsel in 1903. After he had worked as a magistrate, he was elected burgomaster of Brussels on 6 December 1909. During the German occupation of Brussels in the First World War, Max refused to cooperate with the occupying forces. As a result he was arrested and held in captivity, first at Namur, and then at Glatz, until he escaped on 13 November 1918. Charles Lemonnier was acting mayor during his captivity. On his return to Brussels he was greeted as a hero. In 1919 he was elected to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives, where he campaigned for universal adult suffrage, a goal not achieved until after his death. Among the monuments from Max's time in office as mayor of Brussels are parts of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium and the Heysel exhibition park built for the Expo of 1935, begun to mark the centenary of the Belgian Revolution of 1830. Adolphe Max was an honorary Minister of State and a member of the Institut de France . The Place Adolphe Max in t...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mayors of the City of Brussels: Jan-Baptist Verlooy, List of Mayors of the City of Brussels, Charles Buls, Adolphe Max, Nicolas-Jean Rouppe. To get started finding Mayors of the City of Brussels: Jan-Baptist Verlooy, List of Mayors of the City of Brussels, Charles Buls, Adolphe Max, Nicolas-Jean Rouppe, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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58
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2010
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1155224108
Mayors of the City of Brussels: Jan-Baptist Verlooy, List of Mayors of the City of Brussels, Charles Buls, Adolphe Max, Nicolas-Jean Rouppe
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Jan-Baptist Verlooy, List of Mayors of the City of Brussels, Charles Buls, Adolphe Max, Nicolas-Jean Rouppe, Jules Anspach, Guillaume-Hippolyte Van Volxem, Andr-Napolon de Fontainas, Franois-Xavier de Donnea, Charles de Brouckre, Freddy Thielemans, Lucien Cooremans, Charles Lemonnier, Franois-Jean Wyns de Raucourt, Joseph Van de Meulebroeck, Pierre Van Halteren, Emile de Mot, Herv Brouhon, Felix Vanderstraeten. Excerpt: Adolphe Max Adolphe Eugne Jean Henri Max (Brussels, 30 December 1869 6 November 1939) was a Belgian liberal politician and Mayor of Brussels from 1909 until his death. He graduated in law at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, and entered the legal profession, besides doing journalistic work. When he was 25 years old, he was appointed provincial counsel for Brabant, and became a communal counsel in 1903. After he had worked as a magistrate, he was elected burgomaster of Brussels on 6 December 1909. During the German occupation of Brussels in the First World War, Max refused to cooperate with the occupying forces. As a result he was arrested and held in captivity, first at Namur, and then at Glatz, until he escaped on 13 November 1918. Charles Lemonnier was acting mayor during his captivity. On his return to Brussels he was greeted as a hero. In 1919 he was elected to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives, where he campaigned for universal adult suffrage, a goal not achieved until after his death. Among the monuments from Max's time in office as mayor of Brussels are parts of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium and the Heysel exhibition park built for the Expo of 1935, begun to mark the centenary of the Belgian Revolution of 1830. Adolphe Max was an honorary Minister of State and a member of the Institut de France . The Place Adolphe Max in t...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mayors of the City of Brussels: Jan-Baptist Verlooy, List of Mayors of the City of Brussels, Charles Buls, Adolphe Max, Nicolas-Jean Rouppe. To get started finding Mayors of the City of Brussels: Jan-Baptist Verlooy, List of Mayors of the City of Brussels, Charles Buls, Adolphe Max, Nicolas-Jean Rouppe, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.