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Signature. Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck[ 1][ a] (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, [ 6] was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities ...
The French Community of Belgium includes 4.5 million people, of whom: 3.6 million live in the Walloon Region (that is almost the entirety of the inhabitants of this region, apart from people who live in the German-speaking communes, who number around 70,000); 900,000 [4] living in the Brussels Capital Region (out of 1.2 million inhabitants).
The Miss Maurice was happened for the first time in 2016 by Estrella Mauritius organization. The pageant is a new face in Mauritius after Miss Mauritius pageant existed for long in the country. The Estrella Mauritius aims to be a platform for young women and to promote the Mauritian flair and beauty. [2] [3]
A bill to this end was approved by the Senate on 3 April 2014 on a 48–2 vote (with one abstention), and by the Chamber of Representatives on 23 April on a 114–10 vote (with one abstention). The bill received royal assent by King Philippe of Belgium on 5 May and went into effect on 1 January 2015. Since this change, female same-sex couples ...
Charles Frédéric Dubois (28 May 1804 – 12 November 1867) was a Belgian naturalist . He was the author of Planches colorées des oiseaux de l’Europe ("Color plates of the birds of Europe") and Catalogue systématique des Lépidoptères de la Belgique ("Systematic catalog of the Lepidoptera of Belgium"), which was completed by his son ...
Maurice Frère (8 August 1890, Charleroi – 11 August 1970, Side) was a Belgian civil servant and governor of the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) from 1944 until 1957. He lectured at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel ).
The 1953 Belgian Grand Prix was a Formula Two race held on 21 June 1953 at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps.It was race 4 of 9 in the 1953 World Championship of Drivers, which was run to Formula Two rules in 1952 and 1953, rather than the Formula One regulations normally used.
Philippe Maurice. Philippe Maurice (born June 15, 1956, in Paris) was a French criminal and academic, mostly famous for being sentenced to the guillotine for murder in 1980, and subsequently pardoned by president Francois Mitterrand in 1981. His sentence of death was the last confirmed throughout the French legal system, as well as the last ...