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DECKER, PIERRE DE (1812-1891)

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 913 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DAH-DEM
DECKER, PIERRE DE (1812-1891) , Belgian statesman and author, was educated at a Jesuit school, studied law at Paris, and became a journalist on the staff of the Revue de Bruxelles. In 1839 he was elected to the Belgian
lower
  chamber, where he gained a
great
  reputation for oratory. In 1855 he became minister of the interior and prime minister, and attempted, by a combination of the moderate elements of the Catholic and Liberal parties, the impossible task of effecting a
settlement
  of the educational and other questions by which Belgium was distracted. In 1866 he retired from politics and went into business, with disastrous results. He became involved in
financial
  speculations which lost him his good name as well as the greater
part
  of his fortune ; and, though he was never proved to have been more than the victim of clever operators, when in 1871 he was appointed by the Catholic cabinet
governor
  of Limburg, the outcry was so
great
  that he resigned the appointment and retired definitively into private
life
 . He died on the 4th of January 1891. Decker, who was a member of the Belgian
academy
 , wrote several historical and other works of value, of which the most notable are Etudes historiques et critiques sur lee monts-de-piete en Belgique (Brussels, 1844); De l'
influence
  du libre arbitre de l'homme sur les faits sociaux (1848); L'Esprit de parti et l'esprit national (1852) ; Etude politique sur le vicomte Ch. Vilain XIIII (1879); Episodes de l'hist. de fart en Belgique (1883) ; Biographic de H. Conscience (1885).


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