Marthe De Kerchove De Denterghem
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 in Ghent and Paris, where she obtained the ''brevet supérieur'' in 1895. In 1898, she married Pol Boël, director of the Usines Gustave Boël in La Louvière. She engaged in several charities and founded the ''Cercle des Dames Libérales''. Through her father she came into contact with the Belgian feminist movement and where she met Hélène Goblet d’Alviella and Jane Brigode. When World War I broke out she started working as a nurse and joined the ''Union patriotique des femmes belges'' led by Jane Brigode. She joined the ''resistance'' and was arrested, together with her husband, in October 1916 and after a trial in Charleroi imprisoned in Siegburg. Her health deteriorated during her stay in prison and in 1917 she was exchanged for Frau ...
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