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Yves Vander Cruysen

Yves Vander Cruysen

Belgian historian and political activist (1963–2020)

Yves Vander Cruysen (9 March 1963 – 24 November 2020) was a Belgian historian and political activist who served as senior alderman of Waterloo.

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Biography

After studying to become a journalist, Cruysen began his career working for L'Avenir and L'Instant. He then became a spokesman for the Walloon Minister of the Economy and started several television programmes, including Les balades de Sandrine and L'odyssée de l'Objet. He helped upgrade the site of the Battle of Waterloo and sat on the executive board of Wallonie-Bruxelles Tourisme.

He was Alderman of Culture of Waterloo from 1991 until his death and was a Provincial Councillor for Walloon Brabant from 1999 until his death. Cruysen founded Wallimage [fr], served as administrator of the Fondation Folon [fr], and created the Belgo-Festival de Waterloo. He also started the Waterloo Historical Film Festival [fr], the Grandes Conférences Historiques de Waterloo, and the Association de promotion du cinéma belge CinéWa. He created the "Waterloo Connection", which brought international attention to the Battle of Waterloo.[1]

Yves Vander Cruysen died of COVID-19 on 24 November 2020, at the age of 57.[2]

Bibliography

  • Trois siècles d’Histoire à Waterloo (1987)
  • Les Cent Jours de Waterloo (1990)
  • Waterloo (1996)
  • Récits de guerre en Brabant wallon (2004)[3]
  • Un siècle d’histoire en Brabant wallon (2007)
  • La Wallonie vue par les grands écrivains (2011)
  • Curieuses histoires des aventures belges. Quand nous partions à la conquête du Monde (2011)[4]
  • Curieuses histoires des inventeurs belges (2012)[5]
  • Pierre Minuit, l’homme qui acheta Manhattan (2013)[6][7]
  • Made in France, non c’est du Belge (2013)[8]
  • Waterloo démythifié (2014)[9]
  • De Waterloo à Sainte-Hélène (2015)
  • Les plus belles traces de Victor Hugo en Belgique (2016)[10][11]
  • Waterloo, 70 000 ans d’histoires (2017)[12][13]

Distinctions

References

  1. [1]
    "De l'Antarctique aux Caraïbes". La Voix de l'Est (in French). 4 October 2017.
  2. [2]
    "Le premier échevin de Waterloo, Yves Vander Cruysen, est décédé du coronavirus". DH Les Sports (in French). 25 November 2020.
  3. [3]
    "Des récits de guerre pour éviter de "banaliser" la guerre". DH Les Sports (in French). 16 November 2004.
  4. [4]
    "Curieuses histoires des aventures belges". RBTF (in French). 8 February 2011.
  5. [5]
    "Les Belges, inventeurs de génie". DH Les Sports (in French). 8 February 2012.
  6. [6]
    "New York? Gesticht door een Belg". De Morgen (in Dutch). 19 October 2013.
  7. [7]
    "'Niet een Hollander, maar een Belg stichtte New York'". De Volkskrant (in Dutch). 21 October 2013.
  8. [8]
    ""Les Belges n'ont pas le crâne vide"". DH Les Sports (in French). 23 February 2014.
  9. [9]
    "De Hugo à Abba, dix choses insolites sur Waterloo". Le Point (in French). 18 June 2015.
  10. [10]
    "Yves Vander Cruysen, Le plus belles traces de Victor Hugo en Belgique". AREAW (in French). 25 March 2016.
  11. [11]
    "Victor Hugo: "Moi, je les aime fort ces bons Belges!"". Le Point (in French). 19 May 2016.
  12. [12]
    "70.000 ans d'histoires insolites sur Waterloo". DH Les Sports (in French). 24 May 2017.
  13. [13]
    "Une monographie de plus de 450 pages consacrée à Waterloo". RBTF (in French). 24 May 2017.
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