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Jean Duvieusart
Prime Minister of Belgium
In office 8 June 1950 – 16 August 1950
Monarch	Leopold III
Regent	Prince Charles Prince Baudouin
Preceded by	Gaston Eyskens
Succeeded by	Joseph Pholien
President of the European Parliament
In office 21 March 1964 – 24 September 1965
Preceded by	Gaetano Martino
Succeeded by	Victor Leemans
Personal details
Born	(1900-04-10)10 April 1900 Les Bons Villers, Belgium
Died	10 October 1977(1977-10-10) (aged 77) Charleroi, Belgium
Political party	Christian Social Party

Jean Pierre Duvieusart (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ pjɛʁ dyvjøzaʁ]; 10 April 1900 – 10 October 1977) was a Belgian politician of the PSC-CVP who served as prime minister of Belgium from June to August in 1950.

Political career

Jean Duvieusart became a member of the Chamber of Representatives in 1944, serving until 1949, when he became a member of the Senate. He was a member of the Senate until 1965.

Duvieusart served as Minister of Economic Affairs (1947-1950 and 1952-1954).

In 1950 he served two months as the 36th Prime Minister of Belgium but he resigned after the abdication of King Leopold III.

He was president of the European Parliament (1964–1965).

He left the PSC in 1965 and became president and co-founder of the Rassemblement wallon and the Front Démocratique des Bruxellois Francophones (FDF) (1968–1972).

Personal life

On 8 July 1930, Duvieusart married Blanche Dijon (18 November 1907 – 24 February 1984) and had three sons and one daughter, Philippe (born 1932), Léopold (born 1933), Étienne (born 1935) and Thérèse (1939).

See also

• Royal Question, Belgium

References

1. "Jean Duvieusart". academieroyale.be (in French). Retrieved 2 January 2025.
2. "DUVIEUSART Jean | Connaître la Wallonie". connaitrelawallonie.wallonie.be. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
3. "Jean Duvieusart - Munzinger Biographie". www.munzinger.de. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
4. "Jean Duvieusart | enciclopedia.cat". www.enciclopedia.cat. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
5. Theakston, K.; Vries, J. de; Vries, Jouke de (5 April 2012). Former Leaders in Modern Democracies: Political Sunsets. Springer. ISBN 978-1-137-26531-9. Retrieved 2 January 2025. He was succeeded by the 'Leopoldist' lawyer Jean Duvieusart, who had to resign after 64 days because he did not manage to cope with the outburst of a quasi civil war following the referendum on the return of the king.
6. "Former European Parliament Presidents". European Parliament. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
7. European Parliament: The First Ten Years, 1958-1968. General Secretariat of the European Parliament. 1968. p. 89. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
8. Bauer, Raoul (1994). De Lage Landen: een geschiedenis in de spiegel van Europa (in Dutch). Lannoo Uitgeverij. p. 718. ISBN 978-90-209-2263-9. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
9. "Family tree of Alexandrine Blanche DIJON".
10. "Généalogie de Jean DUVIEUSART".

External links

• Jean Duvieusart in ODIS - Online Database for Intermediary Structures Archived 28 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine

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