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unusual facts about Bruxelles



Alain Goldschlager

# "À propos de Le Pen: réflexions sur un discours nationaliste", La Pensée et les Hommes, Bruxelles, Université de Bruxelles, 1994, pp.

Albert Frère

He actively promoted international consolidation of the sectors in which he was involved, selling Banque Bruxelles Lambert to ING Group, Royale Belge to Axa, Tractebel to Suez, Petrofina to Total S.A., and RTL to Bertelsmann.

Albin van Hoonacker

In July 1889, Van Hoonacker was invited by the redaction of Journal de Bruxelles, a Catholic newspaper to react upon some writings in the field of orientalism and biblical exegesis by the jurist, journalist and socialist senator Edmond Picard on the historical value of the Bible.

ATM Class 1500

Another unit was sold to Bruxelles, where it became model for the series 5000; later it went to Madrid.

Bruss

Franz Thomas Bruss, a Belgian-German professor of mathematics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles

Brussels Protestant Church

Brussels Protestant Church (Eglise Protestante de Bruxelles) is a Brussels-based Protestant Christian congregation formally constituted in 1804 and whose roots go back to the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century.

Business engineering

Among others, university business schools offering those programmes are the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (Université Libre de Bruxelles and Vrije Universiteit Brussel), the Louvain School of Management (Université catholique de Louvain, Université de Namur), HEC Management School - University of Liege, the KULeuven, the HUBrussel (Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel), Ghent University or still the University of Antwerp.

Eugène Dupréel

Leader of the "École de Bruxelles", he had a major influence on the argumentation theorist Chaïm Perelman and thus has been instrumental in the renewal of rhetoric.

Fernande de Cartier de Marchienne

Ferdinande Louise Marie Ghislaine (Fernande) de Cartier de Marchienne (Suarlée, 23 February 1872-Bruxelles 19 June 1903) was the Belgian mother of Marguerite Yourcenar.

FWB

The French Community of Belgium, which refers to itself as Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (Wallonia-Brussels Federation)

Henri Smets

Victor of the 1200 m Steeplechase on 23 July 1916 organised by R.C.B. (Racing Club de Bruxelles)

History of Freemasonry in Belgium

Présidé par le prix Nobel de la paix, Henri Lafontaine, membre de la loge les "Amis Philanthropes" et professeur à l'Université libre de Bruxelles (l'Université nouvelle), la Ligue belge des Droits des femmes invite Maria Deraismes à Bruxelles.

Irène Vernal

She was awarded as the Eve of the Theatre (Ève du Théâtre) for her role in the play The Rose Tattoo at Rideau de Bruxelles.

1952: Tennessee Williams The Rose Tattoo, directed by Maurice Vaneau, Rideau de Bruxelles

Jacopo Godani

He has also pursued studies at the Fine Arts High School of Carrara and was accepted to further his studies at Maurice Béjart's international dance centre, Mudra in Bruxelles, Belgium.

Jacques Ledoux

Jacques Ledoux (1921 in Warsaw – 6 June 1988 in Brussels) was a Belgian cinema specialist, curator of the Royal Film Archive of Belgium (Cinémathèque royale de Belgique) from 1948 to 1988 and the founder of the Cinema Museum in Brussels (Musée du cinéma de Bruxelles) in 1962.

Jean de Maillard

He also co-signed a May 9, 2001 op-ed in Le Monde with Bernard Bertossa, attorney general in Geneva, Benoît Dejemeppe, king's attorney in Bruxelles (procureur du roi), Eva Joly, investigative magistrate in Paris, and Renaud van Ruymbeke, judge in Paris, entitled The 'black boxes' of financial globalization, that supported reporter Denis Robert in his investigations concerning the Clearstream Affair.

Marie Cantagrill

She also worked with Zoria Chickmoursaeva, a teacher at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, and followed Igor Oistrakh’s advanced class at the Royal Superior Conservatory of Bruxelles in Belgium.

Philippe Nys

1997 - Logic of Place and Human Work (Logique du lieu et œuvre humaine), Editors : Augustin Berque and Philippe Nys, Bruxelles, Editions Ousia, collection Recueil

Tobias Kassung

He studied with Prof. Hubert Käppel at the Hochschule für Musik Köln and continued his studies with Simon Dinnigan at the UCE Birmingham Conservatoire of Music and with Antigoni Goni at the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles.

Two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

The first two-dimensional experiment, COSY, was proposed by Jean Jeener, a professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, in 1971.

Union des Banques Congolaises

Banque Bruxelles Lambert held 41.5% of its capital, directly and indirectly through SFOM, which was then equally owned by BBL, Deutsche Bank and Banque Nationale de Paris.


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