Adrienne Barbanson van der Noot (1875–1944), Marquise of Assche and Wemmel, was an aristocratic

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in Belgium before and during the

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.Ch. van den Borren, "Assche et de Wemmel, comtesse van der Noot, Adrienne Barbanson, marquise d'", ''

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'', vol. 30 (Brussels, 1958), 104-5.

Biography

Adrienne Barbanson was born in Paris on 29 June 1875, the daughter of the Belgian diplomat Alfred Barbanson and his wife Berthe Drion. In 1898 she married Edouard van der Noot,

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. Together they had four children, Elisabeth (born 1899), Marie-Thérèse (1900), Henri (1902) and Alfred (born 1908). Her husband died in 1928. The marquise was the foundress of a charity, "Amis de Salzbourg", that provided bursaries for young Belgian musicians to visit the

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. This later became the "Association mozartienne de Belgique". After the

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in 1938 she turned her attention to organising benefit concerts in Brussels to support needy musicians, continuing to host concerts even during the

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. In the later 1930s she was also a member of CABEM (Comité de Rapatriement et d'Assistance aux Asiles de l'Ambassade de Belgique à Madrid), an organisation assisting

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.Francis Balace, "La droite belge et l'aide à Franco", '' Revue belge d'Histoire contemporaine'' (1987), p. 648 n. 308. She died in Brussels on 27 May 1944.

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