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: Or dashes!
gollark: ward (stupidly limited)fog (not possible for trades, stops people looking at stuff anyway, ineffective against existing sickness)
gollark: There are two viable methods:
gollark: Also, it's far, *far* easier to attack than defend eggs.
gollark: I wonder how long it'll be before an octillion people come complaining about my no-sickness suggestion.

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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