Amedée Visart de Bocarmé

Amédée Charles Louis Visart de Bocarmé (4 November 1835 – 29 May 1924) was a Belgian Catholic Party politician who served as mayor of Bruges for almost fifty years, from 1876 to 1924, and as a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives for the Bruges constituency for over fifty years, from 1868 to 1921. As a member of parliament he took a particular interest in social legislation.[1]

Portrait of Amedée Visart de Bocarmé

Visart was a member of the organising committee of the Ghent Planning Congress 1913, "the first genuinely international conference to address all aspects of civic life and design".[2]

Honours
gollark: Yes you can.
gollark: Equality™
gollark: Eat a random sample of the population!
gollark: Yes.
gollark: Oh, and they made the "DON'T TRADE WITH THIS DANGEROUS MAN" adverts, and made an exact replica of my tower beside my tower.

References
  1. Marc Mahieu, De openbare centra voor maatschappelijk welzijn: de organieke wet van 8 juli 1976 en aanverwante wetgeving (Antwerp and Apeldoorn, 1999), p. 8.
  2. William Whyte, in Ghent Planning Congress 1913: Premier Congrès International et Exposition Comparée Des Villes (Abingdon, 2014), p. vi.
  3. Royal order of 15 Nov. 1921, published in the Belgisch Staatsblad/Moniteur belge.

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