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unusual facts about Félix de Mérode-Westerloo



Carlo Emmanuele dal Pozzo, 5th Prince of Cisterna

In Brussels, 28 September 1846, Carlo Emmanuele married Countess Louise de Merode-Westerloo, daughter of Count Werner de Merode of the princely house of Rubempré, by his wife, Countess Victoire de Spangen d'Uyternesse.

Guillaume Geefs

By the end of the 1830s, however, he developed a powerful, spare realism in monumental works such as General Belliard and Frédéric de Mérode (erected in Brussels, 1836 and 1837) and Peter Paul Rubens (Antwerp, 1841).

Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta

Countess Louise de Mérode-Westerloo

Xavier de Mérode

The son of Félix de Mérode-Westerloo who held successively the portfolios of foreign affairs, war, and finances under Leopold I of Belgium, and of Rosalie de Grammont, he was allied through the House of Mérode to the aristocracy of France.


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