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Elections. Humanist Democratic Centre ( French: Centre Démocrate Humaniste, CDH) was a Christian democratic [11] and centrist French-speaking political party in Belgium. [12] [13] The party originated in the split in 1972 of the unitary Christian Social Party (PSC-CVP) which had been the country's governing party for much of the post-war period.
Les Engagés (French pronunciation: [lez‿ɑ̃ɡaʒe]; lit. ' The Committed Ones ', LE) is a centrist French-speaking political party in Belgium. The party originated in the split in 1972 of the unitary Christian Social Party (PSC-CVP) which had been the country's governing party for much of the post-war period.
Office. La Ruelle was a leader of the "Grignoux" party in Liège, which sought a French alliance to counterbalance the prince-bishop's alliance with the Habsburgs, and opposed the growth of absolutism in city government. He was elected as one of the mayors of Liège in 1630, but the prince-bishop declared the election fraudulent and refused to ...
Revolution (1789–1791) The place du Marché and the city hall of Liège in the mid-18th century. On 18 August 1789, Jean-Nicolas Bassenge and other democrats met at the hôtel de ville, demanding the magistrates' dismissal and their replacement with the popular mayors Jacques-Joseph Fabry and Jean-Remy de Chestret.
Other visual representations, often commissioned by the authorities, depicted the attack on the Hôtel de Ville, including works by Eugène Delacroix and (Le Combat du Pont d'Arcole) fr:Amédée Bourgeois (La Prise de l’Hôtel de Ville). The work was restored in 2015 through the sponsorship of the Carré Rive Gauche endowment fund.
The Port of Liège, located on the river Meuse, is the 3rd largest river port in Europe. Liège also has direct links to Antwerp through the Albert Canal and to Rotterdam via the river Meuse. It stretches over a distance of 26 kilometres and comprises 32 port areas and covers 3.7 square kilometres.
Liège ( French: [ljɛʒ] ⓘ; Walloon: Lîdje [liːtʃ]; Dutch: Luik [lœyk] ⓘ; German: Lüttich [ˈlʏtɪç] ⓘ) is the easternmost province of the Wallonia region of Belgium . Liège Province is the only Belgian province that has borders with three countries. It borders (clockwise from the north) the Dutch province of Limburg, the German ...
The Prince-Bishopric of Liège or Principality of Liège [2] was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire that was situated for the most part in present-day Belgium. It was an Imperial Estate, so the bishop of Liège, as its prince, had a seat and a vote in the Imperial Diet. [3] The Prince-Bishopric of Liège should not be ...