The Société d'Études Coloniales () was a society that promoted the creation and maintenance of
Belgian overseas colonies which was established in 1894. For some years it was headquartered in the in
Brussels
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(along with similar groups such as the ''Cercle Africain'' and the ''Ligue Nationale pour l'Oeuvre Africain'').
By 1902 it had a library.
Auguste Couvreur served briefly as its first chairman. Other members included . "Of the twenty-nine founding members of the Société, fourteen had civil functions (eleven were lawyers), nine were intellectuals,...five were soldiers,...one was a businessman.
As of 2008, the Society's archives were reported to have been lost.
See also
*
Institut Royal Colonial Belge (est. 1928)
References
Bibliography
;issued by the society
* 1894-
*
1900 ed.*
via Google Books
;about the society
*
External links
* WorldCat
Société d'études coloniales (Belgium)Archive Société d'études coloniales Royal museum of central Africa
1894 establishments in Belgium
Belgian colonial empire
Defunct organisations based in Belgium
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