Belgian
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* Something of, or related to, Belgium
* Belgians, people from Belgium or of Belgian descent
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Octave belonged to a well-known Belgian family. His cousin, Edouard Pirmez, was distinguished for his works on literary and political subjects. He lived an uneventful life at his family's
château
A château (; plural: châteaux) is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor, or a fine country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally, and still most frequently, in French-speaking regions.
Nowaday ...
Gerpinnes
Gerpinnes (; wa, Djerpene) is a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality of Wallonia located in the Hainaut Province, province of Hainaut, Belgium.
On 1 January 2018 the municipality had 12,660 inhabitants. The total area is 47.10 km², giv ...
in Hainaut, where he died.
Works
Pirmez was an ardent admirer of the French Romanticists. His works include:
*''Les Feuillees: pensées et maximes'' (1862)
*''
Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the great ...
'' (1863) ''Jours de solitude'' (1869)
*''Rémo: Souvenir d'un frère'' (1880);
*''Heures de philosophie'' (1881);
*(posthumous ''Lettres à José'' (1884).
These books form a history of his emotional life, and reveal an extreme melancholy.