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Paul de Favereau

Paul de Favereau

Belgian politician


Paul-Louis-Marie-Célestin, baron de Favereau (15 January 1856 – 26 September 1922) was a Belgian politician and member of the Catholic Party.

Life

Born in Liège, he became a doctor of law before serving as member of the Belgian Parliament for the arrondissement of Marche-en-Famenne (1884–1900).[1] On 16 September 1884 he married Marie-Charlotte Frésart (1864–1947), with whom he had Edith-Paul-Adeline-Marie-Joseph-Ernestine-Elisabeth de Favereau, later wife of Charles-Albert d'Aspremont Lynden and mother of Harold Charles d'Aspremont Lynden.[2]

De Favereau also became Foreign Minister (1896–1907) and senator for the Province of Luxembourg (1900–1922).[3] He was made a minister of state in 1907. For his last eleven years in the senate he also served as its president. He died at the château de Jenneret.[4]

Honours


References

  1. Paul Van Molle, Het Belgisch parlement, 1894-1972, Antwerp, 1972
  2. Oscar Coomans de Brachène, État présent de la noblesse belge: Annuaire 1988, Brussels, 1988.
  3. Jean-Luc De Paepe & Christiane Raindorf-Gerard (ed.), Le Parlement belge, 1831-1894: Données biographiques, Brussels, 1996.
  4. "Paul de Favereau in de ODIS".
Preceded by
Jacques-Joseph Brassine
Foreign Minister of Belgium
1896–1907
Succeeded by
Preceded by President of the Senate of Belgium
1911–1922
Succeeded by
Arnold, comte t'Kint de Roodenbeke

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