Carlo Bronne

Carlo Bronne is a Belgian magistrate who apart from the heavy loads of the court, delivered himself to the history and the humanities.

It was born in 1901 with Liege, as Georges Simenon which it always admired and with which one day it lent his smoking, and died in 2006 with Schaerbeek.

Poet initially, like were then the young well-read men who followed high models, he thus learned how to mould his style in the corset of the alexandrine.

But it was the history, and especially the history of Belgium which became soon its principal literary topic.

A country without legend is condemned, says one, to die of cold, and it knew to discover in an often prosaic country, the topic with many sketches with the pencil to tend rather than to the Italic vinegar.

In the portrait of its various recent heroes, one leniency and the benevolence of a judge who never judges.

Its style of a traditional beauty with revealed thus to its compatriots of many and charming anecdotes of the past.

Writer become " officiel" , he was member of the Institut of France and the royal Académie of language and literature Frenchwomen of Belgium, where he occupied the armchair of Georges Virrès (n°3).

It signal the petition of professors and academicians Wallonia in alarm (1947) asking that one not adapt the seats of the Parliament to the results of the census before a solution is found with the minorisation of Wallonia.

Encyclopedia of the Walloon Movement , Volume I, pp. 202-203

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