Robert Gruslin

Robert Gruslin born with Rochefort the March 18th 1901, deceased with Profondeville on June 1st 1985 is a Belgian Politician and a Walloon militant

Laid off in administrative sciences of the Universit3e libre de Bruxelles, listener with the Court of Auditors (1921-1935), he is director with the Ministry for the State education (1935-1945), he is principal private secretary of François Bovesse in 1935 and of Auguste Buisseret in 1944-1945), then becomes governor of the Province of Namur in 1945 thus succeeding François Bovesse assassinated by the rexists in 1944. He will remain governor until 1968.

He had contacts with the Walloon movement during the inter-war period, will be member of the cultural Council of French expression created by Jules Bordet. In June 1951, these Councils take again their advisory dimension by a royal Arrêté taken by Pierre Harmel which advises to them to work within the framework of the provinces.

Gruslin will defend Wallonia in particular at the time of the opening of the sessions of the provincial council of Namur as in 1947 when he affirms that: the Walloon problem can only worsen with time if one is satisfied to deny it and to minimize the real range of it. This problem is at the same time social, economic and politico-admlinistratif. In 1955, little before the opening of a Walloon cultural Congress, it launches a vibrating call to the awakening of the regional conscience. In the years 1960 he will plead for the idea whereby the formation of Europe pleads in favor of a decentralization in the middle of its States. At the time of the Festival of Wallonia to Uccle in 1969, he pleads for a rapprochemnt with France.

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