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

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

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

He was also the author of numerous See also:

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

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