Jane Brigode (born Jane Ouwerx; 30 May 1870 – 3 May 1952) was a

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liberal and politician. From 1940 until 1945 she was co-president of the

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. In 1921, she and

Marthe Boël Marthe Boël (; Ghent, 3 July 1877 – 18 January 1956) was a Belgian feminist. She was the third daughter of the liberal senator Count Oswald de Kerchove de Denterghem and Maria Lippens, daughter of August Lippens. Biography She studied i ...

founded the ''Union des femmes libérales de l’arrondissement de Bruxelles'' and in 1923 they founded, together with Alice De Keyser-Buysse, the ''National Federation of Liberal Women''.

Honours

* Knight in the Order of Leopold.Dictionnaire des femmes belges: XIXe et XXe siècles, Éliane Gubin.-p.81 * Officer in the

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Presidents of the Belgian liberal party

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