''Journal de Bruxelles'' was a Belgian newspaper, printed 1841-1926 (with publication suspended under the

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). It was one of the leading dailies in late 19th and early 20th-century Brussels, and was aligned with the Catholic interest in public affairs.

Proprietors

Dieudonné Stas Dieudonné François Marie Stas (1791–1868) was a Belgian newspaper proprietor. Life Stas was born in Liège on 20 August 1791. In 1820 he founded the ''Courrier de la Meuse'', with Pierre Kersten as editor in chief.Paul Bergmans, "Stas (Dieud ...

founded a newspaper in

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in 1820 under the title ''Courrier de la Meuse'', but moved it to Brussels under the new title in 1841. Stas retired in 1856, when management was taken over by Paul Nève, who ran the newspaper until 1862.

Editors

Alexandre Delmer did the bulk of the editorial work 1863-1871. He left to become editor in chief of the ''Courrier de Bruxelles'' in July 1871. The editor in chief of the ''Journal de Bruxelles'' from 1878 to 1890 was

Prosper de Haulleville Prosper de Haulleville (1830–1898), who also wrote under the pen name Félix de Breux, was a Belgian journalist and author who was influential on his country's adoption of universal manhood suffrage with plural voting and proportional representa ...

.Norbert Piepers, "Haulleville (Charles-Alexander-Prosper, baron de)", '' Biographie Nationale de Belgique''
vol. 37
(Brussels, 1971), 413-420.

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{{Reflist French-language newspapers published in Belgium Publications established in 1841 1841 establishments in Belgium Publications disestablished in 1926 1926 disestablishments in Belgium Defunct daily newspapers

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