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PIERRE EDOUARD FRERE (1819-1886)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 208 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PIERRE EDOUARD FRERE (1819-1886)  , French painter, studied under Delaroche, entered the Ecole
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des Beaux-Arts in 1836 and exhibited first at the
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Salon in 1843 . The marked sentimental tendency of his
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art makes us wonder at Ruskin's enthusiastic eulogy which finds in Frere's
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work " the
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depth of Wordsworth, the grace of Reynolds, and the holiness of Angelico." What we can admire in his work is his accomplished craftsman-
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ship and the intimacy and
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tender homeliness of his conception . Among his chief
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works are the two paintings, " Going to School " and " Coming from School," " The Little Glutton " (his first exhibited picture) and " L'Exercice " (Mr Astor's collection) . A journey to
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Egypt in 186o resulted in a small series of Orientalist subjects, but the majority of Frere's paintings
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deal with the
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life of the kitchen, the workshop, the dwellings of the humble, and mainly with the pleasures and little troubles of the young, which the artist brings before us with humour and sympathy . He was one of the most popular painters of domestic genre in the
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middle of the 19th century . FRERE-ORBAN, HUBERT JOSEPH WALTHER (1812-1896), Belgian statesman, was born at Liege on the 24th of
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April 1812 . His
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family name was Frere, to which on his
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marriage he added his wife's name of Orban . After studying law in Paris, he practised as a
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barrister at Liege, took a prominent
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part in the Liberal
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movement, and in
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June 1847 was returned to the Chamber as member for Liege . In August of the same
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year he was appointed minister of public works in the Rogier
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cabinet, and from 1848 to 1852 was minister of
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finance . He founded the Banque Nationale and the Caisse d'Epargne, abolished the newspaper tax, reduced the
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postage, and modified the customs duties as a preliminary to a decided
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free-trade policy . The Liberalism of the cabinet, in which Frere-Orban exercised an influence hardly inferior to that of Rogier, was, however, distasteful to
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Napoleon III . Frere-Orban, to facilitate the negotiations for a new commercial treaty, conceded to France a law of
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copyright, which proved highly unpopular in Belgium, and he resigned office, soon followed by the rest of the cabinet .

His work La Mainmorte et la charite (1854-1857), published under the

pseudonym of "
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Jean
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van
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Damme," contributed greatly to restore his party to power in 1857, when he again became minister of finance . He now embodied his free-trade principles in commercial
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treaties with England and France, and abolished the octroi duties and the tolls on the
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national roads . He resigned in 1861 on the gold question, but soon resumed office, and in 1868 succeeded Rogier as prime minister . In 1869 he defeated the attempt of France to gain control of the Luxemburg
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railways, but, despite this service to his country, fell from power at the elections of 187o . He returned to office in 1878 as president of the council and
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foreign minister . He provoked the bitter opposition of the Clerical party by his law of 1879 establishing secular
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primary
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education, and in 188o went so far as to break off
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diplomatic relations with the Vatican . He next found himself at variance with the Radicals, whose leader, Janson, moved the introduction of universal suffrage . Frere-Orban, while rejecting the proposal, conceded an extension of the franchise (1883); but the hostility of the Radicals, and the discontent caused by a
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financial crisis, overthrew the government at the elections of 1884 . Frere-Orban continued to take an active part in politics as leader of the Liberal opposition till 1894, when he failed to secure re-election . He died at Brussels on the 2nd of
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January 1896 . Besides the work above mentioned, he published La Question monelaire (1874); La Question monetaire en Belgique in 1889; Echange de vues entre MM . Frere-Orban et E. de Laveleye (189o); and La Revision constitutionnelle en Belgique et ses consequences (1894) .

He was also the author of numerous

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pamphlets, among which may be mentioned his last work, La Situation presente (1895) .

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