Ferdinand de Meeûs

Belgian banker, businessman and politician

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Ferdinand de Meeûs (1798–1861) was a Belgian banker, businessman and politician. He founded the Society for the Enlargement and Embellishment of Belgium in 1838, which attempted to promote Brussels as a capital.^[1]