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GUILLAUME GROEN See also: born at Voorburg, near the Hague, on the 21st of See also: August 18or
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He studied at See also: Leiden university, and graduated in 1823 both as See also: doctor of literature and LL.D
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From 1829 to 1833 he acted as secretary to See also: King
See also: William I. of
See also: Holland, afterwards took a prominent
See also: part in Dutch home politics, and gradually became the See also: leader of the so-called See also: anti-revolutionary party, both in the Second Chamber, of which he was for many years a member, and outside
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In Groen the doctrines of Guizot and Stahl found an eloquent exponent
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They permeate his controversial and See also: political writings and See also: historical studies, of which his Handbook of Dutch See also: History (in Dutch) and See also: Maurice et Barnevelt (in French, 1875, a See also: criticism of Motley's See also: Life of See also: Van Olden-Barnevelt) are the See also: principal
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Groen was violently opposed to See also: Thorbecke, whose principles he denounced as ungodly and revolutionary
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Although he lived to see these principles See also: triumph, he never ceased to oppose them until his See also: death, which occurred at the Hague on the 19th of May 1876
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He is best known as the editor of the Archives et correspondance de la maison d'Orange (12 vols., 1835-1845), a See also: great See also: work of patient erudition, which procured for him the title of the " Dutch See also: Gachard." J
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Motley acknowledges his indebtedness to Groen's Archives in the preface to his Rise of the Dutch Republic, at a See also: time when the See also: American historian had not yet made the acquaintance of King William's archivist, and also See also: bore emphatic testimony to Groen's worth as a writer of history in the See also: correspondence published after his death
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At the first reception, in 1858, of Motley at the royal palace at the Hague, the king presented him with a copy of Groen's Archives as a token of appreciation and admiration of the work done by the " worthy vindicator of William I., See also: prince of Orange." This copy, bearing the king's autograph inscription, afterwards came into the possession of See also: Sir William See also: Vernon See also: Harcourt, Motley's son-in-See also: law
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