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JULES EDOUARD XAVIER MALOU (1810-1886)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 497 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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XAVIER See also:MALOU (1810-1886)  , Belgian statesman, one of the leaders of the clerical party, was See also:born at See also:Ypres on the 19th of See also:October 181o . He was a See also:civil servant in the See also:department of See also:justice when he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies by his native See also:constituency in 1841, and was for some See also:time See also:governor of the See also:province of See also:Antwerp . He was See also:minister of See also:finance in the See also:coalition See also:ministry of J . B . See also:Nothomb in 1844, and formed with B . T. de Theux a See also:Catholic See also:cabinet in 1846, which was overthrown in the Liberal victory of 1847 . See also:Malou then became a member of the See also:senate, and his party only regained ascendancy in 187o . The extreme clerical ministry of See also:Baron d'Anethan retired in See also:December 1871 after serious rioting in See also:Brussels, and Malou was the real, though not the nominal,See also:head of the more moderate clerical administrations of de Theux and Aspremont-Lynden (1870-1878) . He was See also:wise enough to disavow the noisy sympathy of Belgian Ultramontane politicians with the See also:German victims of the Kulturkampf, and, retaining in his own hands the See also:portfolio of finance, he subordinated his clerical policy to a useful See also:administration in commercial matters, including a development of the railway See also:system . It was only after the fall of the ministry in 1878 that he adopted a frankly clerical policy, and when he became See also:chief of a new See also:government in See also:June 1884 he proceeded to undo the educational See also:compromise of his predecessors in the See also:Frere-Orban ministry . His legislation in favour of the Catholic See also:schools caused rioting in Brussels, and in October the See also:king demanded the retirement of MM . See also:Jacobs and Woeste, the members of the cabinet against whom popular indignation was chiefly directed .

Malou followed them into retirement, and died at Woluwe See also:

Saint See also:Lambert, in See also:Brabant, on the lrth of See also:July 1886 . He was a financier of See also:great knowledge and experience, and his See also:works (of which a See also:long See also:list is given in See also:Koninck's Bibliographie nationale de Belgique) include three See also:series (1874-188o) of See also:memoirs on See also:financial questions, edited by him for the Chamber of Deputies, besides See also:pamphlets on railroad proposals, See also:mining and other See also:practical questions . His See also:brother See also:Jean See also:Baptiste Malou (1809-1864) was a well-known divine .

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