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Jean Louis Joseph Lebeau (
3 January 1794 -
19 March 1865) was a
Belgian liberal politician and statesman.
Biography
Born in
Huy, he received his early education from an uncle who was
parish priest in
Hannut, and became a clerk. He raised money to study Law at the
University of Liège, and was called to the
bar association in 1819. While in
Liège, he formed a fast friendship with
Charles Rogier and
Paul Devaux, together with whom he founded at Liege in 1824 the
Mathieu Laensbergh, afterwards
Le politique, a journal which helped to unite the
Catholic Party with the
Liberals in their opposition to the cabinet, without manifesting any open disaffection to the
United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Lebeau hadn't aimed for the separation of the
Netherlands and Belgium, but his hand was forced by the
August Revolution of
1830. He was sent by his native district to the
National Congress, and became minister of foreign affairs in March 1831 during the interim regency of
Érasme-Louis Surlet de Chokier. By proposing the election of
Leopold of Saxe-Coburg as
King of the Belgians he secured a benevolent attitude on the part of the
United Kingdom, but the restoration to the Netherlands of part of the duchies of
Limburg and
Luxembourg provoked a heated opposition to the
1839 Treaty of London, and Lebeau was accused of treachery to Belgian interests.
He resigned the direction of foreign affairs on the accession of King Leopold, but in the next year became minister of justice. He was elected deputy for
Brussels in 1833, and retained his seat until 1848. Differences with the king led to his retirement in 1834. He was subsequently governor of the
Province of Namur (1838), ambassador to the
Frankfurt Diet (1839), and in
1840 he formed a short-lived Liberal ministry. From this time he held no office of state, although he continued his energetic support of liberal and
anti-clerical measures. He died at Huy.
Works
Lebeau published
La Belgique depuis 1847 (Brussels, 4 vols., 1852),
Lettres aux électeurs belges (8 vols., Brussels, 1853-1856). His (Brussels, 1883) were edited by A. Freson.
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