Auguste Pierre Louis Couvreur (24 October 1827 in
Ghent
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– 23 April 1894 in
Ixelles) was a
Belgian politician and publicist.
Couvreur, was the senior foreign member of the
Cobden Club, and has been connected with the ''Independence Belge'' both as contributor and editor, was for twenty years one of the Liberal representatives of
Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
, and for four years Vice-President of the Chamber. In 1894 he briefly belonged to the newly formed
Société Belge d'Études Coloniales.
He founded the first municipal girls' school for secondary education in Brussels, called 'Ecole professionnelle pour jeunes filles' . This school is now known as 'Institut De Mot-Couvreur'( it merged with the Institut De Mot' and was set up in 1975). One of his interests apart from free trade was education and social progress
Personal life
In 1885, Couvreur married
"Madame Jessie Tasma", an English-born Australian novelist and lecturer.
References
1827 births
1894 deaths
Belgian politicians
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