1947 in Belgium
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Events from the year 1947 in Belgium
Incumbents
[edit]- Monarch: Leopold III
- Regent: Prince Charles
- Prime Minister:
- Camille Huysmans (to 20 March)
- Paul-Henri Spaak (from 20 March)
Events
[edit]- 13 March – Camille Huysmans proffers his resignation as prime minister.
- 28 March – premiere of Marie-Thérèse Bodart's play Et Adam répondit (And Adam Answered) at the Royal Park Theatre.[1]
Publications
[edit]- Marnix Gijsen (ed.), Belgium under Occupation (New York, Moretus Press for the Belgian Government Information Center)
- Robert E. Merriam, Dark December: The Full Account of the Battle of the Bulge (Chicago, Ziff-Davis)[2]
- Georges Simenon, Maigret se fâche
Births
[edit]- 1 April – Philippe Kirsch, Belgian-born Canadian lawyer and judge
- 19 April – Claude Laverdure, writer (died 2020)
Deaths
[edit]- 9 February — Anna Kernkamp (born 1868), artist
- 11 March – Édouard Poncelet (born 1965), archivist
- 8 September – Victor Horta (born 1861), architect
References
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- ^ Burniaux, Robert; Frickx, Robert (1980). La littérature belge d'expression française [French-Language Belgian Literature] (in French) (2nd ed.). Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. pp. 99–100. ISBN 2130362834.
- ^ "Dark December: The Full Account of the Battle of the Bulge". Chicago, Ziff-Davis Pub. Co. 1947.
