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Paul de Favereau

Belgian politician

Paul-Louis-Marie-Célestin, baron de Favereau (15 January 1856 – 26 September 1922) was a Belgian politician and member of the Catholic Party.

Life

Born in Liège, he became a doctor of law before serving as member of the Belgian Parliament for the arrondissement of Marche-en-Famenne (1884–1900).^[1] On 16 September 1884 he married Marie-Charlotte Frésart (1864–1947), with whom he had Edith-Paul-Adeline-Marie-Joseph-Ernestine-Elisabeth de Favereau, later wife of Charles-Albert d'Aspremont Lynden and mother of Harold Charles d'Aspremont Lynden.^[2]

De Favereau also became Foreign Minister (1896–1907) and senator for the Province of Luxembourg (1900–1922).^[3] He was made a minister of state in 1907. For his last eleven years in the senate he also served as its president. He died at the château de Jenneret.^[4]

Honours

Grand cordon of the Order of Leopold
Civic Cross, 1st Class
Commemorative Medal of the Reign of King Leopold II
Grand Cross of the Order of
- Saints Maurice and Lazarus (Italy)
- the Oak Crown (Luxembourg)
- the Saviour (Greece)
- the Double Dragon (China)
- the Polar Star (Sweden)
- the White Eagle (Poland)
- the Rising Sun (Japan)
- the Villa Vicosa (Portugal)
- the White Elephant (Siam)
- the Lion and the Sun (Persia)
- the Légion d’honneur (France)
- Osmanieh (Turkey)
- Pius IX (Papal States)

References

^ Paul Van Molle, Het Belgisch parlement, 1894-1972, Antwerp, 1972
^ Oscar Coomans de Brachène, État présent de la noblesse belge: Annuaire 1988, Brussels, 1988.
^ Jean-Luc De Paepe & Christiane Raindorf-Gerard (ed.), Le Parlement belge, 1831-1894: Données biographiques, Brussels, 1996.
^ "Paul de Favereau in de ODIS".

Foreign ministers of Belgium

1800s

Van de Weyer (1831)
Lebeau (1831)
de Muelenaere (1831)
Goblet (1831–34)
de Muelenaere (1834–36)
de Theux (1836–40)
Lebeau (1840–41)
de Briey (1841–43)
de Muelenaere (1843–45)
Dechamps (1845–47)
d'Hoffschmidt (1847–52)
de Brouckère (1852–55)
Vilain XIIII (1855–57)
de Vrière (1857–61)
Rogier (1861–67)
Vander Stichelen (1868–70)
d'Anethan (1870–71)
d'Aspremont Lynden (1871–78)
Frère-Orban (1878–84)
de Moreau (1884)
de Riquet de Caraman (1884–92)
de Merode (1892–95)
de Burlet (1895–96)
de Favereau (1896–1907)

1900s

Davignon (1907–1916)
Beyens (1916–17)
de Broqueville (1917–18)
Hymans (1918–20)
Jaspar (1920–24)
Hymans (1924–25)
Vandervelde (1925–27)
Hymans (1927–34)
Jaspar (1934)
Hymans (1934–35)
van Zeeland (1935–36)
Spaak (1939–49)
van Zeeland (1949–54)
Spaak (1954–57)
Larock (1957–58)
Wigny (1958–61)
Spaak (1961–66)
Harmel (1966–73)
Van Elslande (1973–77)
Simonet (1977–80)
C-F. Nothomb (1980–81)
Tindemans (1981–89)
Eyskens (1989–92)
Claes (1992–94)
Vandenbroucke (1994–95)
Derycke (1995–99)
Michel (1999–2004)

2000s

De Gucht (2004–09)
Leterme (2009)
Vanackere (2009–11)
Reynders (2011–)

Preceded by Jacques-Joseph Brassine	Foreign Minister of Belgium 1896–1907	Succeeded by Julien Davignon
Preceded by Alfred, vicomte Simonis	President of the Senate of Belgium 1911–1922	Succeeded by Arnold, comte t'Kint de Roodenbeke