François-Jean Wyns de Raucour (or Raucourt), knight (6 November 1779 – 4 January 1857), was a Belgian liberal politician and
burgomaster
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of Brussels.
He was a lawyer and became
alderman
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and burgomaster of Brussels (1840–1848). François-Jean Wyns de Raucour was also a member of the provincial council of
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Belgium
* Province of Bra ...
and a member of the
Belgian Senate.
Honours
* Knight in the
Order of Leopold Order of Leopold may refer to:
* Order of Leopold (Austria), founded in 1808 by emperor Francis I of Austria and discontinued in 1918
* Order of Leopold (Belgium), founded in 1832 by king Leopold I of Belgium
* Order of Leopold II, founded in Congo ...
.
[Indépendance Belge (L') 05-01-1857]
* Knight of the
Legion of Honour
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.
See also
*
List of mayors of the City of Brussels
This is a list of mayors or burgomasters of the City of Brussels.
Burgundian Netherlands (1384–1482)
*1380: Geert Pipenpoy
*1381: Geert Pipenpoy and Jacques Stovaert
*1421: J. Swaeff, J. Cooman
*1422: Walter Vanden Heetvelde, Petrus van Bole ...
References
Sources
* Du Bois, A., "Les Bourgmestres de Bruxelles", in : ''Revue de Belgique'', April 1896, pp. 365–396.
* De Paepe, Jean-Luc, Raindorf-Gérard, Christiane (red), ''Le Parlement Belge 1831-1894. Données Biographiques'', Brussels, Académie Royale de Belgique, 1996, pp. 626–627.
* Pergameni, Ch., in : ''Biographie Nationale'', Brussels, Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux Arts, 1866–1986, XXVII, 1936–1938, col. 422–424.
1779 births
1857 deaths
Mayors of the City of Brussels
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