Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen
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Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen was a Belgian lawyer and liberal politician known as the founder of the Free University of Brussels. He was twice chairman of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives.
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Verhaegen with masonic symbols
Main building of the Free University of Brussels, now the Solbosch/Solbos campus of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Saint Verhaegen festivities at the Square du Grand Sablon/Grote Zavelsquare, Brussels
Grand Orient of Belgium
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The Grand Orient of Belgium is a Belgian cupola of masonic lodges which is only accessible for men, and works in the basic three symbolic degrees of freemasonry.
Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen
…definitively founded, he understood that Orangism had no future, and he chose the side of the Belgian liberals. In 1833, he was Master of the Masonic lodge Les Amis Philanthropes in Brussels. He intended Belgian freemasonry, with its progressive ideas, to play a leading role in Belgian politics. However, this stance led to…
Interior of the Les Amis Philanthropes temple in Brussels
Freemasons' Hall, London