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    Hubert Joseph Walthère Frère-Orban (French pronunciation: [ybɛʁ ʒozɛf waltɛʁ fʁɛʁ ɔʁbɑ̃]; 24 April 1812 – 2 January 1896) was a Belgian liberal statesman...
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    Henri Alexis Brialmont (category Articles with hCards)
    of defence spending. His stance put him into conflict with Walthère Frère-Orban and the Liberals. From 1855, he began campaigning for restructuring of...
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    from 1857 to 1880, and during its final year in power legislated the Frère-Orban Law of 1879. This law created free, secular, compulsory primary schools...
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  • Ferdinand Freiligrath William Frend (reformer) Hubert Joseph Walthère Frère-Orban Nicolas Fréret Charles Louis de Saulces de Freycinet Gustav Freytag Jakob...
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    Richerus of Rheims, Histoire de son temps, edited by G.-H. Pertz, translated and annotated by J. Guadet, vol. 1 Archived 6 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine...
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    Congo does not make any international difficulties for us." Walthère Frère-Orban, Liberal Prime Minister of Belgium, 1878–84. Determined to look for a...
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    Conacher, J. B. (1971). The Emergence of British Parliamentary Democracy in the Nineteenth Century. New York: John Wiley and Sons. Davis, Richard W. (1976)...
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    divided Belgian politics. The Catholics united with the Liberals under Frère-Orban to oppose them, and the reforms were finally defeated when d'Anethan's...
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    63#1 pp. 1–22 in JSTOR Seton-Watson, R. W. Britain in Europe, 1789–1914. (1938); pp 67–120.online Temperley, H.W.V. The Foreign Policy of Canning, 1822–1827:...
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  • politician and life peer, member of the House of Lords (since 2004). Alex Orban, 82, Hungarian-American Olympic sabre fencer (1968, 1972, 1976). Poedjono...
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