Louis de Potter

Louis-Joseph-Antoine De Potter (born the April 26th 1786 with Bruges, dead the July 22nd 1859 with Bruges) is a Belgian politician .

He spends twelve years in Italy (1811 - 1823) to study the history of the Papauté.

De Potter begins its political career as a writer of the newspaper of opposition the Mail of the Netherlands . It deploys there its liveliness of polemist against the catholic clergy , the Aristocratie and the government of Guillaume I {{er}} of the Netherlands. One of its articles published the November 8th 1828, a violent one lampoon against the Ministers for the kingdom, marks the rallying of the Courier of the Netherlands to the unionism. The Minister for Justice Cornelis Felix van Maanen continues it and he fianlement will fianlement be condemned the December 20th 1828 to eighteen months of detention and a fine of 1  000 Guilder S. the January 8th 1830, king Guillaume deprives of their employment or their pension of the Belgian deputies of the general states which had been opposed to its policy. Still in prison, De Potter launches the idea of a national subscription to compensate the deputies or civils servant victims for such abuses. Van Maanen continues it for plot against the State and excitation with the revolt. The April 30th 1830, it is thus again condemned by the Court of Assizes of Brussels to a eight years exile (his/her friends and accessory Jean-François Tielemans and Adolphe Bartels are condemned to seven years of banishment). He thinks of exiling himself in France, but this country refuses to accommodate it and he thus ends up being expelled in Prussia. After the Revolution of July, it gains France. To the bursting of the Belgian Revolution, it returns to Brussels. It there is at once named member of the provisional government and is responsible for the fundamental law draft new for Belgium. He decides the November 10th, with the opening of the National congress, in favor of a republican mode . After the Congress decides in favor of the Constitutional monarchy the November 13rd 1830, it turns over to the private life.

Works

  • Union of the catholics and the liberals in the Netherlands , (2nd edition, Brussels 1831)

  • History of Christianity (Paris 1836,8 Bde.)
  • Summarized history of Christianity (1856, 2 Bde.)
  • the Belgian Revolution of 1828 to 1839, personal memories (Brussels 1838-39, 2 Bde.)

Biography

  • Just: Louis de Potter (Brussels 1874)

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