François-Jean Wyns de Raucour

François-Jean Wyns de Raucour
Mayor of Brussels
In office
14 April 1841 – 4 October 1848
Preceded byGuillaume Van Volxem
Succeeded byCharles de Brouckère
Personal details
Born(1779-11-06)6 November 1779
Brussels, Austrian Netherlands
Died4 January 1857(1857-01-04) (aged 77)
Brussels, Belgium
NationalityBelgian
OccupationPolitician

François-Jean Wyns de Raucour (or Raucourt), knight (6 November 1779 – 4 January 1857), was a Belgian liberal politician and mayor of the City of Brussels.

He was a lawyer and became alderman and mayor of Brussels (1840–1848). He was also a member of the provincial council of Brabant and a member of the Belgian Senate.

Honours

See also

References

  1. ^ Indépendance Belge (L') 05-01-1857

Sources

  • Du Bois, A., "Les Bourgmestres de Bruxelles", in : Revue de Belgique, April 1896, pp. 365–396.
  • De Paepe, Jean-Luc, Raindorf-Gérard, Christiane (red), Le Parlement Belge 1831-1894. Données Biographiques, Brussels, Académie Royale de Belgique, 1996, pp. 626–627.
  • Pergameni, Ch., in : Biographie Nationale, Brussels, Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux Arts, 1866–1986, XXVII, 1936–1938, col. 422–424.


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