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Édouard De Walckiers
Viscount Joseph Édouard Sébastien de Walckiers de Tronchiennes (7 November 1758 - 17 April 1837) was a Brussels-born banker. He died in Paris. Life He was the son of viscount and of Dieudonnée Louise Josephine de Nettine, heir to the Nettine bank in Brussels, founded in 1733 by her father Matthias de Nettine. Matthias' widow Barbe Stoupy inherited the bank in 1749: The Nettine bank was the most important in the Spanish Netherlands (later known as the Austrian Netherlands): Édouard de Walckiers' first marriage was in 1783 to Barbe de Reul (1767-1791), with whom he had one child, Louise Jeanne (1784-1825), who in 1801 married count Alexandre Batowski (1758-1824). In 1799 he married his second wife, Rose-Françoise Renaut (1773-1837), with whom he had Charles-Louis, 3rd viscount de Walckiers (1793-1849) and Alphonse 4th viscount de Walckiers (1814-1879), who had issue. On 16 January 1784 Joseph Édouard de Walckiers was made counsellor-receiver-general of finances for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Belgian Bankers
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Germaine De Staël
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein (; ; 22 April 176614 July 1817), commonly known as Madame de Staël (), was a French woman of letters and political theorist, the daughter of banker and French finance minister Jacques Necker and Suzanne Curchod, a leading salonnière. She was a voice of moderation in the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era up to the French Restoration. She was present at the Estates General of 1789 and at the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.Bordoni, Silvia (2005Lord Byron and Germaine de Staël The University of Nottingham Her intellectual collaboration with Benjamin Constant between 1794 and 1810 made them one of the most celebrated intellectual couples of their time. She discovered sooner than others the tyrannical character and designs of Napoleon. For many years she lived as an exile – firstly during the Reign of Terror and later due to personal persecution by Napoleon. In exile, she became the centre of the Coppet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Suzanne Tassier
Suzanne Tassier-Charlier (4 June 1898 - 12 March 1956) was a Belgian historian, political activist, feminist, and Professeur ordinaire. She was the first Belgian woman to be awarded a higher education degree in her country. Biography Suzanne Tassier was born in Antwerp on 4 June 1898. Her father was Major General Emile Tassier. She began her studies at the École normale de Bruxelles.IDAFT, p. 10. World War I forced her to continue and complete her secondary education abroad, first in the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom, then in Versailles, Yvelines, France.DFB, p. 523. Back in Belgium after the war, she entered the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in 1919 where she studied history. At the instigation of , she turned to contemporary history and produced a thesis entitled , which enabled her to obtain her doctorate in 1923,RBPH, p. 964 after which she entered the Lycée Emile Max in Schaerbeek in July 1924.IDAFT, p. 11 Career From her years of study at the ULB, Tassie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Directory
The Directory (also called Directorate, ) was the governing five-member committee in the French First Republic from 2 November 1795 until 9 November 1799, when it was overthrown by Napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte in the Coup of 18 Brumaire and replaced by the French Consulate, Consulate. ''Directoire'' is the name of the final four years of the French Revolution. Mainstream historiography also uses the term in reference to the period from the dissolution of the National Convention on 26 October 1795 (4 Brumaire) to Napoleon's coup d’état. The Directory was continually at war with foreign coalitions, including Kingdom of Great Britain, Britain, Habsburg monarchy, Austria, Kingdom of Prussia, Prussia, the Kingdom of Naples, Russian Empire, Russia and the Ottoman Empire. It annexed Austrian Netherlands, Belgium and the left bank of the Rhine, while Bonaparte conquered a large part of Italy. The Directory established 196 short-lived sister republics in Italy, Old Swiss Confederacy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamburg
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Victor Champier
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François Louis Jean-Joseph De Laborde De Méréville
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Orléans Collection
The Orleans Collection was a very important collection of over 500 paintings formed by Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans, mostly acquired between about 1700 and his death in 1723. Apart from the great royal-become-national collections of Europe it is arguably the greatest private collection of Western art, especially Italian, ever assembled, and probably the most famous, helped by the fact that most of the collection has been accessible to the public since it was formed, whether in Paris, or subsequently in London, Edinburgh and elsewhere. The core of the collection was formed by 123 paintings from the collection of Queen Christina of Sweden, which itself had a core assembled from the war booty of the sacks by Swedish troops of Munich in 1632 and Prague in 1648 during the Thirty Years War. During the French Revolution the collection was sold by Louis Philippe d'Orléans, ''Philippe Égalité'', and most of it acquired by an aristocratic English consortium led by Francis Ege ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbe De Nettine
Barbe Louise de Nettine, née ''Stoupy'' (1706-1775), was a politically influential banker in the Austrian Netherlands. She married the banker Matthias Nettine, who introduced her in to the business in 1744, and inherited his bank as a widow in 1749. She supplied the government of the Austrian Netherlands with funds and metal for the manufacture of coins and essentially controlled the revenue and expenditure of both the Governor-General and Carl von Cobenzl, who was Ministre plenipotentiaire in 1753-1770. As such, she acquired influence over the financial government policy, and regularly met with Cobenzl who consulted her in all such decisions. During the Seven Years' War, she raised the funds of government loans in the Low countries ti finance the war and laundered money for the empress to avoid the attention of the Low countries Assembly. She successfully prevented the government plans of a national bank in Brussels. She was ennobled as vicomtesse de Nettine in 1758, and marrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
