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Yves Boël (12 September 1927,
Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
– 19 June 2012) was a
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businessman.Sofina-patriarch Yves Boël overleden
tijd.be He was a son of
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René Boël and Yvonne Solvay, granddaughter of
Ernest Solvay Ernest Gaston Joseph Solvay (; 16 April 1838 – 26 May 1922) was a Belgian chemist, industrialist and philanthropist. Born in Rebecq, he was prevented by his acute pleurisy from going to university. He worked in his uncle's chemical fact ...
and he married countess Yolande d'Oultremont on 12 September 1977. Yves Boël was president of the board of Sofina. With an estimated fortune of 1.418
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, he was one of the wealthiest people in Belgium.


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De vijfentwintig rijkste Vlamingen: brouwers boven

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