{{lowercase The d'Harscamp were a Belgian aristocratic family from the

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region, who were Counts of Argenteau. They became wealthy during the

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through possession of the secret of how to cast cannon in a single piece. They endowed many local charitable institutions and a main street of Namur is named after them.

Family members

Jeanne d'Harscamp, Dowager Duchess of

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at her chateau at Freÿr, when the

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was signed. Charles-Francois de Paule, Baron d'Harscamp (1669-1736) was Mayor of Namur and then Lieutenant Governor from 1732 to his death. In 1711 he married Marie Isabelle, Comtesse d'Argenteau. They had five children: *Charles-Antoine, lieutenant mayor of Namur; *Marie-Thérèse-Isabelle, (1712-1782), who married Baron Heinrich

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and as Baroness

was head of the household of Princess Heinrich of

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. A sculpture of her by Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert was destroyed by allied bombing. *Charles-Joseph, who was killed at war; *Henri, who was also killed at war; *François-Pontian, who married Isabelle Brunelle (1724-1805), a noted philanthropist, whose statue is to be seen in Namur.

References

*Soc. Archéologique de Namur, t. XIV, BORMANS, Généalogie des Harscamp. Belgian noble families