Belgian historian, born in Brussels on the 11th of January 1818. After finishing his education the Minister of the Interior employed him, and soon afterward he became secretary of the board for public instruction. In 1858 he became custodian of the royal museum of antiquities at Brussels, and in 1870 he was appointed professor of history in the military school. Among his works are Histoire de la Révolution Belge de 1790 (1846); Guillaume le Taciturne (1873); Léopold I et Léopold II, Rois des Belges (1878); La Révolution de Juillet, 1830 (1883). He died in August 1888.
