Maurice Bologna

Maurice Bologna (Liege May 4th, 1900 - Nalinnes February 26th, 1984) is a Politician and Belgian historian .

It defended in 1928 the thesis of the working character of the Belgian Révolution of 1830 under the title the proletarian Insurrection of 1830 in Belgium , thesis approved by Henri Pirenne.

For Maurice Bologna, the revolution of 1830 is explained above all by the encountered economic difficulties with Brussels, in Wallonia and Flanders. Its book was republished in 1979 by the editions Kritak (Leuven), with a foreword of Scale and van Zileghme, in 1981 by the review Critique Policy and this year by the Aden editions.

Maurice Bologna met the Abbé Jacques Mahieu, took part in the free foundation of Wallonia, became senator of the Walloon Rassemblement of 1968 to 1974. He appears among the signatories of the Manifeste for the Walloon culture of 1983.

For a more complete biography, one will refer to the note which is devoted to him in the Encyclopédie of the Walloon Movement, Charleroi, 2000, volume 1, p. 164-166.

Maurice Bologna is one of the craftsmen of the Accord Schreurs-Roofer which takes seat in long series of direct contacts between Flemish militants and Walloons who will be at the origin of the federalism in Belgium.

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