Paul Devaux

Paul Devaux ( born April 10, 1801 in Bruges, † January 30, 1880 in Brussels) was a Belgian politician. He sat in particular for Belgium's independence from the Netherlands, which was finally achieved in the Belgian Revolution.

First, Devaux was a lawyer in Liege, graduated in 1824 with then Lebau and Rogier a close connection, from the 1830 gave rise to the so-called doctrinaire party. In the journal Politique (Liège ) he brought the Catholics with the Liberals in line and coined much the independence movement in the Belgian public. During the Revolution, Devaux Bruges represented in Congress and helped in the sense of a constitutional monarchy in the design of a new constitution.

In March 1831, he became Minister of State without special tasks, withdrew from the shops after the establishment of King Leopold. For government took office Lebeau - Rogier he founded in 1840 the liberal -minded Revue nationale.

1846 Devaux was a member of the Belgian Academy.

Works

• Etudes politiques sur l' histoire ancienne et moderne et sur ​​l' influence de l' état ​​de guerre et de l' état ​​de paix. Brussels 1875
• Etudes politiques sure les principaux évènements de l' histoire romaine. Paris 1880 ( 2 vols )

• Lawyer ( Belgium)
• Minister (Belgium )
• Belgian
• Born in 1801
• Died in 1880
• Man