UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels is an autonomous university campus specialized in
social
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Etymology
The word "social" derives fro ...
and
human science
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s part of
UCLouvain and based in
Brussels
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, Belgium.
Established in 1857, Saint-Louis University, Brussels (officially, in French Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles) used to be a
public university
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belonging to the
French Community of Belgium
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before a merger with the
University of Louvain decided in 2017. Both universities have been using the new designation 'UCLouvain' since 2018 and legally merged in 2023.
History
When the
Catholic University of Belgium moved from
Mechelen
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to
Leuven
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in 1835, the unused buildings were used to host the newly founded ''École de Commerce et d'Industrie'' (School of Trade and Industry), which was inaugurated in 1838.
The school moved to Brussels in 1858 and became the ''Institut Saint-Louis'' (a diocesan secondary school), where the Philosophy Department was founded, which eventually grew to become a university. This was the result of the
Catholic clergy's and
Pope Pius IX
Pope Pius IX (; born Giovanni Maria Battista Pietro Pellegrino Isidoro Mastai-Ferretti; 13 May 1792 – 7 February 1878) was head of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878. His reign of nearly 32 years is the longest verified of any pope in hist ...
's wish to have a Catholic institution in Brussels teaching
philosophy
Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...
. The department prepared candidates for the higher
liberal arts
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certification that would qualify them to enroll for a university law degree.
[A Short History of Saint-Louis](_blank)
University Website. Accessed 20 February 2016.
In 1891, with the recognition of non-state universities, the institution became recognized as an autonomous ('free') university, a status which was confirmed in 1929.
Over time, Faculties developed and expanded, and a Faculty of Law was added to the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters.
In 1925, the university founded (''Hautes études commerciales''), Belgium's first independent business school, together with its
Dutch-speaking counterpart,
EHSAL (''St. Aloysius College of Economics''). Also, the university established the world-renowned School of Philosophical and Religious Sciences, founded by
Cardinal Mercier.
In 1948, the Philosophy and Arts section separated from the ''Institut Saint-Louis'', and continued independently as a non-profit university under the name "Faculté universitaire Saint-Louis". It was not until 1960 that the administrative split was fully effective and the buildings separated.
In 1965, the Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences (ESPO) was established and the university's name was later changed to the plural ''Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis''.
In 1969, Saint-Louis starts giving lectures to
Dutch-speaking students, in addition to lessons at EHSAL/HEC, but the Dutch-speaking department would leave the ''Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis'' in 1973, to create the independent ''Universitaire Faculteiten Sint-Aloysius'' (UFSAL). This later became the
Catholic University of Brussels (K.U.Brussel). Both UFSAL and EHSAL merged to create the
Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUB), together with other
Flemish institutions like
Vlekho, which originated from the Saint-Louis-linked ''
Institut libre Marie Haps
The Institut libre Marie Haps (ILMH) was a former French language, French-speaking institution of higher education in Brussels, Belgium, founded by Marie Haps in 1919. Since 1995 it has become a constituent part of Haute École Léonard de Vinci ex ...
''. In 2013, HUB was reorganized and today comprises the ''KU Leuven campus Brussel'', and the vocational college
Odisee. Both are still located in the same street as Saint-Louis University, the ''rue du Marais'' or ''Broekstraat''.
French-speaking HEC Saint-Louis, which was renamed to ISC Saint-Louis (''Institut supérieur de Commerce''), co-founded the "ICHEC - ISC Saint-Louis - ISFSC" Consortium of Schools in 1995, and ''
de facto'' integrated the
Institut catholique des Hautes Études commerciales (ICHEC) in 2004. Saint-Louis University, Brussels still organises degrees in economics, management and business engineering, on the same site as the ISC Saint-Louis, within its Faculty of Economics, Politics, Social and Communication Sciences (ESPO).
Between 2004 and 2013, Saint-Louis University and the three other Belgian French-speaking Catholic universities; namely the
University of Namur, the
Université catholique de Louvain
UCLouvain (or Université catholique de Louvain , French for Catholic University of Louvain, officially in English the University of Louvain) is Belgium's largest French-speaking university and one of the oldest in Europe (originally establishe ...
and the
Facultés universitaires catholiques de Mons (now a part of UCLouvain) made up the
Académie universitaire Louvain network. This notably meant the integration of Saint-Louis' economics and management programmes into the
Louvain School of Management. After the reform of
Belgian French-speaking universities in 2013, Saint-Louis became a founding member of the ''Pôle académique de Bruxelles'', along with the
Université libre de Bruxelles
The (French language, French, ; lit. Free University of Brussels; abbreviated ULB) is a French-speaking research university in Brussels, Belgium. It has three campuses: the ''Solbosch'' campus (in the City of Brussels and Ixelles), the ''Plain ...
and, by decree, was renamed from ''Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis'' to ''Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles''.
In May 2017, Saint-Louis University, Brussels and the
University of Louvain (primarily based in
Louvain-la-Neuve
Louvain-la-Neuve (; French for "New Leuven"; ) is a planned town in the municipality of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Wallonia, Belgium, situated 30 km southeast of Brussels, in the province of Walloon Brabant. The town was built to house th ...
and which has 2 campuses in Brussels:
Woluwe and
Saint-Gilles) officially announced that the two universities were merging in a single institution named UCLouvain, with Saint-Louis becoming 'UCLouvain Saint-Louis - Bruxelles'. Both institutions have started using the name UCLouvain in September 2018.
Saint-Louis' main campus is located on the northern edge of the historic inner city, opposite the
Botanical Garden of Brussels across the
small ring road. In 2015, the department and programmes of translation and interpreting of the
Institut libre Marie Haps
The Institut libre Marie Haps (ILMH) was a former French language, French-speaking institution of higher education in Brussels, Belgium, founded by Marie Haps in 1919. Since 1995 it has become a constituent part of Haute École Léonard de Vinci ex ...
were transferred to the newly established
Marie Haps Faculty of Translation and Interpreting at Saint-Louis University, Brussels. This fifth Faculty is located in buildings along the ''rue d'Arlon'', near the
European Parliament
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.
Chronology
* 1835: the Catholic University of Belgium, installed in
Mechelen
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, moves to
Leuven
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(Louvain) to form the
Catholic University of Louvain. The ''École de Commerce et d'Industrie'' in the premises left by the university (the official opening took place in 1838).
* 1858: transfer of the ''École de Commerce et d'Industrie'' to Brussels, becoming the Institut Saint-Louis,
and foundation of the Section for Philosophy teaching Philosophy & Arts, and Law.
* 1891: the private institution is considered an autonomous ('free') university with recognized university degrees.
* 1925: founding of the School of Philosophical and Religious Sciences and of HEC Saint-Louis, Belgium's first business school, as well as
EHSAL (Economische Hogeschool Sint-Aloysius), the Dutch-speaking equivalent.
* 1929: a new law declares the institution to be an independent university.
* 1948: creation of the
ASBL (non-profit organization) ''Faculté universitaire Saint-Louis''.
* 1949: an order of the
Regent
In a monarchy, a regent () is a person appointed to govern a state because the actual monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge their powers and duties, or the throne is vacant and a new monarch has not yet been dete ...
confirms the autonomy of Saint-Louis' university education.
* 1960: complete autonomy between the
university faculty and the Saint-Louis Institute (primary and secondary school); and creation of the Faculty of Law.
* 1964: inauguration of the Botanique 43 building, the university's new head office, with university
auditorium
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s; separation of the buildings of the ''Institut secondaire Saint-Louis'' and the Faculty.
* 1965: creation of the Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences (ESPO). HEC Saint-Louis and EHSAL become administratively independent from the university but remain located in the university buildings.
* 1969: new name: ''Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis - Universitaire Faculteiten Sint-Aloysius'' (FUSL-UFSAL); with the implementation of first courses in
Dutch.
* 1973: independence of the Dutch-speaking ''Universitaire Faculteiten Sint-Aloysius'', which together with EHSAL moved to the beginning of rue du Marais; inauguration of the Marais 109 building for the FUSL while the secondary school Institut Saint-Louis moves to a new building on rue du Marais 113.
* 1980: foundation of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the
Brussels Region (CERB); creation of courses with off-shift schedules.
* 1984: HEC Saint-Louis becomes the ''Institut supérieur de commerce'', or ISC Saint-Louis.
* 1991: creation of bilingual French-Dutch programmes in collaboration with Saint-Louis' Dutch-speaking equivalent now called
Katholieke Universiteit Brussel.
* 1993: creation of trilingual French-Dutch-English and bilingual French-English programmes in law and social sciences.
* 1995: authorization by
decree
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to organize
doctoral theses and
postgraduate studies.
* 1996: the ISC Saint-Louis co-founds the new ''Haute École Groupe "
ICHEC - ISC Saint-Louis - ISFSC"'', a
vocational university college.
* 2004: the ISC Saint-Louis is absorbed into the ''
Institut catholique des hautes études commerciales''.
* 2004: adhesion to the
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational union, supranational political union, political and economic union of Member state of the European Union, member states that are Geography of the European Union, located primarily in Europe. The u ...
's
Erasmus Charter.
* 2004: foundation of the
Académie Louvain.
* 2007: creation of the Institute of European Studies (IEE).
* 2011: inauguration of the 119 Marais building, which now houses the Institute of European Studies and its specialized library.
* 2013: the FUSL become Saint-Louis University, Brussels (''Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles''), one of the
six universities of the
Wallonia-Brussels Federation.
* 2015: creation of the
Marie Haps Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, incorporating the bachelor's degrees in translation-interpretation from the
''Institut libre Marie-Haps'' (''Haute École Vinci'') and thus sharing the rue d'Arlon (
European district) and Tilleuls (
Chaussée de Wavre
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) campuses with it.
* May 2017: the board of directors of the
University of Louvain and the General Assembly of the Saint-Louis University, Brussels decide, with 90% of the votes each, to merge and found the UCLouvain.
* May 2018: inauguration of the Ommegang building by the
Brussels Minister Céline Frémault and the Rectors of the Universities of Saint-Louis and Louvain, doubling the surface area of Saint-Louis.
Architecture
In 2004, a fire destroyed offices and a large part of the historic library building was flooded following the intervention of the fire brigade. A new library was built and inaugurated in 2005, while some elements of the old library remain (including part of the imposing wooden staircase). The university's main library moved to the third and fourth floors of the new Ommegang building in 2018.
In 2015, the university indeed acquired an office building belonging to
Belfius bank, the Ommegang, next to the University's building located at 109 rue du Marais, in order to relieve the institution's infrastructure, whose number of students tripled in fifteen years. New
lecture theatres were built, including the institution's largest auditorium, a new library, a new multi-purpose room for 1300 people, and a residence with about 100 student apartments. The new facilities are accessible since the 2017 academic year, increasing the surface area of the main Saint-Louis campus from 25,000 m² to 47,000 m².
Location
Campus Saint-Louis
Saint-Louis University is located on two campuses in
Brussels
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and
Ixelles
(French language, French, ) or (Dutch language, Dutch, ) is one of the List of municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located to the south-east of Pentagon (Brussels), Brusse ...
. The main campus, Saint-Louis, with 48 km² of university space, is located in the city centre, between the ''rue de l'Ommegang'' and ''du Marais'', as well as the ''boulevards
du Jardin botanique'' and ''Pachéco''.
This tight urban campus is split in two by the ''Institut secondaire Saint-Louis'', forming to the north the "''Botanique''" and "''Préfecture''" buildings housing the Institute of European Studies (Marais 119), the
university press
A university press is an academic publishing house specializing in monographs and scholarly journals. They are often an integral component of a large research university. They publish work that has been reviewed by scholars in the field. They pro ...
(Botanique 42), the university's official main building (Botanique 43) and the historical building with the
rectorate (Botanique 38) and the former library; and to the south the more recent ''Marais 109'' and ''Ommegang'' buildings, where the faculty and student administrations are located, and several large auditoriums.
Campus Marie-Haps
The courses of the
Marie Haps Faculty Translation & Interpreting are given on the Marie-Haps campus, shared with the ''
Haute École Vinci'', in
Ixelles
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, in the
European quarter, more precisely in front of the
European Parliament
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. The buildings of the Marie-Haps campus are located on either side of ''rue d'Arlon'' and historically in the Hôtel
Beernaert.
The language courses (extra-curricular) are given in an office building further north, between rue d'Arlon and rue de Trèves, where Marie-Haps' Dutch-speaking departments (which have integrated the
Erasmushogeschool Brussel and
Vlekho) used to be located.
''Tilleuls'' site
The
Marie-Haps Faculty is also located on the Tilleuls site, former ''Å’uvre du Calvaire'' hospital, which integrated the
Saint-Luc University Hospital in
UCLouvain Brussels Woluwe in 2003. The Tilleuls site includes a large country house, a caretaker's house, a chapel and the former hospital transformed into classrooms, located on the
Chaussée de Wavre
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.
Organisation
Demographic evolution
Students enrolled at Saint-Louis University, Brussels on 1 December (excluding doctoral students). The university took the name Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles instead of FUSL during the 2013–2014 academic year.
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Faculties
*Faculty of Philosophy, Arts and Human Sciences
*Faculty of Law
*Faculty of Economics, Social, Political and Communication Sciences (ESPO)
*
Marie Haps Faculty of Translation and Interpreting
*Institute for European Studies (IEE)
Saint-Louis University, Brussels is specialized in
undergraduate
Undergraduate education is education conducted after secondary education and before postgraduate education, usually in a college or university. It typically includes all postsecondary programs up to the level of a bachelor's degree. For example, ...
programmes, for which it has developed unique degrees. For example, it is the only Belgian university organising bilingual or trilingual
bachelor's
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(with its sister university,
KU Leuven
KU Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Founded in 1425, it is the oldest university in Belgium and the oldest university in the Low Countries.
In addition to its mai ...
campus Brussels);
Erasmus programmes in social and human sciences; evening schedules; and the possibility of completing double
bachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree (from Medieval Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six years ...
s in the majority of
majors. It is also the only university of the
Wallonia-Brussels Federation offering a fully English bachelor's degree; in
business engineering.
In total, the university organises 25
Bachelor programmes, two
Master's degree
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s, an
Executive master's degree, seven Masters of specialization (
postgraduate
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master's degrees) and more than 20 university certificates of
continuing education
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Recognized forms of post-secondary learning activities within the d ...
. Most Master's diplomas and university certificates are double degrees with one or more
Belgian or foreign universities.
Research centers
Since its foundation, Saint-Louis has distinguished itself by its university character, which is to produce knowledge in addition to offering it. The first research centres were set up at the end of the 19th century. In 1995, the decree organizing higher education granted the University the right to organize doctoral theses, further contributing to the expansion of research.
The university organises research through three research institutes:
* Interdisciplinarity and Society Network (RIS)
* Interdisciplinary Research Institute on Brussels (IRIB), formed in 1980, fifteen years before the creation of the
Brussels-Capital Region
Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital ...
, as the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the Brussels Region (CERB).
* Institute of European Studies (IEE), founded in 2007 and also an independent faculty since 2012.
and various
research centers:
* The Belgian Centre for Burgundian Studies 1400-1600
* Centre for Anthropology, Sociology and Psychology: Studies and Research (CASPER)
* Private Law Centre (CePri)
* Research Centre in Economics (CEREC)
* Centre for Research in Political Science (CReSPo)
* Centre for Research in the History of Law, Institutions and Society (CRHiDI)
* Centre for the Study of Environmental Law (CEDRE)
* Centre for Sociological Studies (CES)
* Centre for Innovation and Intellectual Property (CIPI)
* Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Constitutional and Administrative Law (IARC)
* Inter-University Centre for Mobility Studies
* ''Prospero'' Centre - Language, image and knowledge
* Research Group on Criminal and Penal Matters (GREPEC)
* Observatory on AIDS and Sexuality
* Research Cluster on Communication and Media (PReCoM)
* Seminar on Applied Mathematics in the Humanities (SMASH)
* Seminar for Linguistics (SeSLa)
* Interdisciplinary Seminar on Legal Studies (SIEJ)
* TranSpheres - Center for Traductology
Saint-Louis University, Brussels has also founded the Brussels Studies Institute together with the two other Brussels universities:
Université libre de Bruxelles
The (French language, French, ; lit. Free University of Brussels; abbreviated ULB) is a French-speaking research university in Brussels, Belgium. It has three campuses: the ''Solbosch'' campus (in the City of Brussels and Ixelles), the ''Plain ...
and
Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
School of Philosophical and Religious Sciences
The School of Philosophical and Religious Sciences, founded in 1925 by
cardinal Mercier, is not a research center nor a faculty, but continues to teach and study philosophy, theology and social and human sciences, to which it has been a major contributor. Chairs of the School of Philosophical and Religious Sciences are always public and have included
Paul Ricœur,
Michel Serres,
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe,
Cornelius Castoriadis
Cornelius Castoriadis (; 11 March 1922 – 26 December 1997) was a Greeks in France, Greek-FrenchMemos 2014, p. 18: "he was ... granted full French citizenship in 1970." philosopher, sociologist, social critic, economist, psychoanalyst, au ...
,
Jean-Luc Nancy,
Jacques Lacan
Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (, ; ; 13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Described as "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Sigmund Freud, Freud", Lacan gave The Seminars of Jacques Lacan, year ...
,
Tzvetan Todorov,
Alain Touraine or
Pierre Bourdieu
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.
Notable alumni
*
Typh Barrow, Belgian
singer,
songwriter
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,
composer
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Etymology and def ...
and
pianist
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*
Henry Bauchau, Belgian
psychoanalyst
PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: and is a set of theories and techniques of research to discover unconscious processes and their influence on conscious thought, emotion and behaviour. Based on dream interpretation, psychoanalysis is also a talk th ...
, lawyer, and author of French prose and poetry.
*
Henry Carton de Wiart, count,
23rd Prime Minister of Belgium.
*
Louise Cavenaile, Belgian
field hockey
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player.
*
Bernard Coulie, Belgian academic and previous rector of the
University of Louvain.
*
Benoît Cerexhe, Belgian politician, minister of the
Brussels-Capital Region
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and Mayor of
Woluwe-Saint-Pierre.
*
Étienne Davignon
Étienne, Count Davignon (; born 4 October 1932) is a Belgium, Belgian former diplomat, top civil servant, businessman, and former vice-president of the European Commission, also known as an active participant in organization of the murder of P ...
, businessman, Belgian
Minister of State
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,
statesman and former
European Commissioner.
*
Pierre Daye, first
rexist group leader at the
Chamber of Representatives, journalist.
*
Francis Delpérée, Belgian
senator
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and professor of
constitutional law
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at the
University of Louvain.
*
Henri De Page, Belgian
jurist
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.
*
Princess Marie-Esméralda of Belgium, daughter of King
Leopold III.
*
Pierre Harmel,
count
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, lawyer and
40th Prime Minister of Belgium.
*
Jean-Baptiste Janssens (1889–1964), twenty-seventh
Superior General of the Society of Jesus.
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Bernard Le Grelle, count, investigative journalist, political adviser, writer, and public affairs executive, known for his long term investigation into the
JFK assassination.
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François Ost,
baron
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,
philosopher of law and previous
vice-chancellor
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of Saint-Louis University, Brussels.
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Thomas Owen, Belgian
fantasy
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The genre's roots lie in oral traditions, ...
author and member of the
Royal Academy of French Language and Literature of Belgium.
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Charles Terlinden, Belgian historian, professor at the
Catholic University of Louvain, and
papal chamberlain.
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Edmond Thieffry, Belgian
First World War
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air
ace and aviation pioneer.
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Françoise Tulkens, lawyer and expert in criminal and penal law, and Vice-President of the
European Court of Human Rights
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.
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Philippe van Parijs, philosopher, professor at
Harvard University
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and at the
University of Louvain.
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Michel Weber, philosopher.
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