Amedée Visart de Bocarmé

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Amédée Charles Louis Visart de Bocarmé (4 November 1835 – 29 May 1924) was a Belgian Catholic Party politician who served as mayor of Bruges for almost fifty years, from 1876 to 1924, and as a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives for the Bruges constituency for over fifty years, from 1868 to 1921. As a member of parliament he took a particular interest in social legislation.[1]

Visart was a member of the organising committee of the , "the first genuinely international conference to address all aspects of civic life and design".[2]

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  1. ^ Marc Mahieu, De openbare centra voor maatschappelijk welzijn: de organieke wet van 8 juli 1976 en aanverwante wetgeving (Antwerp and Apeldoorn, 1999), p. 8.
  2. ^ William Whyte, in Ghent Planning Congress 1913: Premier Congrès International et Exposition Comparée Des Villes (Abingdon, 2014), p. vi.
  3. ^ Royal order of 15 Nov. 1921, published in the Belgisch Staatsblad/Moniteur belge.

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