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LEBEAU, JOSEPH (1794-1865)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 349 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LEBEAU, See also:JOSEPH (1794-1865) , Belgian statesman, was See also:born at Huy on the 3rd of See also:January 1794. He received his See also:early See also:education from an See also:uncle who was See also:parish See also:priest of Hannut, and became a clerk. By dint of See also:economy he raised See also:money to study See also:law at See also:Liege, and was called to the See also:bar in 1819. At Liege he formed a fast friendship with See also:Charles See also:Rogier and See also:Paul Devaux, in See also:conjunction with whom he founded at Liege in 1824 the Mathieu Laensbergh, afterwards Le politique, 'a See also:journal which helped to unite the See also:Catholic party with the Liberals in their opposition to the See also:ministry, without manifesting any open disaffection to the Dutch See also:government. Lebeau had not contemplated the separation of See also:Holland and See also:Belgium, but his See also:hand was forced by the revolution. He was sent by his native See also:district to the See also:National See also:Congress, and became See also:minister of See also:foreign affairs in See also:March 1831 during the See also:interim regency of Surlet de Chokier. By proposing the See also:election of See also:Leopold of See also:Saxe-See also:Coburg as See also:king of the Belgians he secured a benevolent attitude on the See also:part of See also:Great See also:Britain, but the restoration to Holland of part of the duchies of See also:Limburg and See also:Luxemburg provoked a heated opposition to the treaty of See also:London, and Lebeau was accused of treachery to Belgian interests. He resigned the direction of foreign affairs on the See also:accession of King Leopold, but in the next See also:year became minister of See also:justice. He was elected See also:deputy for See also:Brussels in 1833, and retained his seat until 1848. See also:Differences with the king led to his retirement in 1834. He was subsequently See also:governor of the See also:province of See also:Namur (1838), See also:ambassador to the See also:Frankfort See also:diet (1839), and in 1840 he formed a See also:short-lived Liberal ministry. From this See also:time he held no See also:office of See also:state, though he continued his energetic support of liberal and See also:anti-clerical See also:measures.

He died at Huy on the 19th of March 1865. Lebeau published La Belgique depuis 1847 (Brussels, 4 vols., 1852), Lettres aux electeurs belges (8 vols., Brussels, 1853-1856). His Souvenirs personnels et See also:

correspondence diplomatique 1824—1841 (Brussels, 1883) were edited by A. Freson. See an See also:article by A. Freson in the Biographic nationale de Belgique; and T. Juste, Joseph Lebeau (Brussels, 1865).

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