Odette_De_Wynter

Odette De Wynter

Odette De Wynter

Belgium's first woman notary

Odette De Wynter (18 July 1927 – 14 September 1998) was the first woman to be a notary in Belgium.[1][2]

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Biography

Odette De Wynter was born on 18 July 1927 in Brussels. She was the only daughter of the feminist Odette Prayé and Jean De Wynter. De Wynter studied at the Université libre de Bruxelles, graduating in 1950. In 1950 Belgian women were finally granted the right to work as a notary and in 1955 De Wynter was appointed by royal decree in Auderghem.[1][3][4]

De Wynter became the administrator and founder of the European Institute for Research and Studies of Notaries (IRENE)[5][6] as well as vice-president of "Solidarité, Groupement Social Féminin" and "Solidarité familial", a service created by her mother to help families and seniors.[7][4]

Wynter died in Brussels in 1998.[4]

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    "Auderghem.be | Question orale de Madame Martine Maelschalck et Monsieur Jérémy Van Gorp (MR-Open VLD) : Noms de femmes dans la désignation des espaces publics". www.auderghem.be (in French).
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    Bartleman, James K. (4 March 2011). On Six Continents: A Life In Canada's Foreign Service, 1966-2002. McClelland & Stewart. ISBN 978-1-55199-454-3.
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    "LE NOTAIRE PEUT BEAUCOUP POUR VOUS". Le Soir (in French).
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    Gubin, Éliane (2006). Dictionnaire des femmes belges: XIXe et XXe siècles (in French). Lannoo Uitgeverij. ISBN 978-2-87386-434-7.
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    "Institut de Recherches et d'Etudes Notariales Européen". I.R.E.N.E. (in French).
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    Wynter, Odette de (1989). Garantie apportée par l'intervention du notaire dans les phases préliminaires à la conclusion de la vente: Rôle du notaire lors de la constitution d'une personne morale (in French). Féderation royale des Notaires de Belgique.
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    Sextant: revue du Groupe interdisciplinaire d'études sur les femmes (in French). ULB, CEC. 1995.


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