MALOU, JULES EDOUARD XAVIER (1810-1886)

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MALOU, JULES EDOUARD XAVIER (1810-1886) , Belgian statesman, one of the leaders of the clerical party, was born at Ypres on the 19th of October 181o. He was a civil servant in the department of justice when he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies by his native constituency in 1841, and was for some time

governor

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

of the province of Antwerp. He was minister of finance in the coalition ministry of J. B. Nothomb in 1844, and formed with B. T. de Theux a Catholic cabinet in 1846, which was overthrown in the Liberal victory of 1847. Malou
then became a member of the senate, and his party only regained ascendancy in 187o. The extreme clerical ministry of Baron d'Anethan retired in December 1871 after serious rioting in Brussels, and Malou was the real, though not the nominal,head of the more moderate clerical administrations of de Theux and Aspremont-Lynden (1870-1878). He was wise enough to disavow the noisy sympathy of Belgian Ultramontane politicians with the German victims of the Kulturkampf, and, retaining in his own hands the portfolio of finance, he subordinated his clerical policy to a useful administration in commercial matters, including a development of the railway system. It was only after the fall of the ministry in 1878 that he adopted a frankly clerical policy, and when he became

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

of a new government in June 1884 he proceeded to undo the educational compromise of his predecessors in the Frere-Orban ministry. His legislation in favour of the Catholic schools caused rioting in Brussels, and in October the king demanded the retirement of MM.

Jacobs

JACOBS, CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1764-1847)

and Woeste, the members of the cabinet against whom popular indignation was chiefly directed. Malou followed them into retirement, and died at Woluwe Saint Lambert, in Brabant, on the lrth of July 1886. He was a financier of

great

GREAT

knowledge and experience, and his works (of which a long

list

LIST (O.E.
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, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr.
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- LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)
)
FRIEDRICH
- FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )
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FRIEDRICH
- FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )
(1789-1846)

is given in Koninck's Bibliographie nationale de Belgique) include three

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

(1874-188o) of memoirs on

financial

FINANCIAL

questions, edited by him for the Chamber of Deputies, besides pamphlets on railroad proposals, mining and other

practical

PRACTICAL

questions. His brother Jean Baptiste Malou (1809-1864) was a well-known divine.

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