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 Bart Perdieus
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| General Description : | The Charter of Quaregnon was the doctrinary basis for the Belgian socialists from 1894 until 1979. In 1894, Belgian elections were for the first time held according to the scheme of the plural right to vote under the pressure of the violent Belgian general strike of 1893. This meant for the Belgian Labour Party, that for the first time workers could vote and that representatives from the party, ten years after its foundation, could enter the Belgian parliament. With a doctrinarian charter the program of the socialist party was presented to the electorate. Out of several ideas Emile Vandervelde chose this proposition, which was adopted on the Easter congress of the socialist party, at Quaregnon on 25-26 March 1894, and which became known as the Charter of Quaregnon. This charter was strongly influenced by ideas of the French socialist Jules Guesde. As a doctrinarian source of inspiration for the Belgian Socialists, the Charter of Quaregnon survived time and two World Wars. Only after 1979, when the Belgian Socialist Party (BSP) fell apart in a Flemish SP and a Walloon PS, newer Charters were created. Depicted is the painting of Fernand Allard : La Chute du Veau d'Or (The Fall of the Golden Calf) |
| Face value | 16 Francs |
| Catalog code (Michel) | BE 2601 |
| Catalog code (Scott) | BE 1545 |
| Catalog code | Yvert et Tellier BE 2546 Stanley Gibbons BE 3221 AFA number BE 2609 Belgium BE 2549 Unificato BE 2549 |
| Stamp colour | multicolor |
| Stamp use | Commemorative stamp |
| Print run | 6.000.000 |
| Issue date | 26/03/1994 |
| Designer | Louis Van den Eede |
| Print technique | photogravure |
| Perforation | 11 1/2 |
| Height | 38.00 mm |
| Width | 49.00 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
