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 Bart Perdieus
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| General Description : | Paul Pastur (Marcinelle, 7 February 1866 - Marcinelle, 8 June 1938) was a Belgian lawyer and politician from Hainaut. He obtained a law degree of the University of Liège, and started working at the bar of Charleroi in 1893. Impressed by the riots of 1886, he became involved in defending the 27 workmen supposedly implied in the Great Plot. In 1892, together with Jules Destrée, he founded the Democratic Federation. He devoted himself to more egalitarian education and in 1903 he founded the Université du Travail in Charleroi. In 1927, he introduced Mother's Day in Belgium, based on the American example. Paul Pastur was a freemason. Julius Hoste Sr. (Tielt, 23 January 1848-Brussels, 28 March 1933), was a Belgian writer and businessman. In 1888, he founded the moderate liberal Flemish newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws. For the Flemish theatre in Brussels (KVS), he wrote several very successful historical plays, such as the De Brusselsche straatzanger (1883) and the De kleine patriot (1889). He was a freemason, and a member of the lodge Les Amis Philanthropes of the Grand Orient of Belgium in Brussels. |
| Face value | 1,20 Francs + 30 Centimes |
| Catalog code (Michel) | BE 1059 |
| Catalog code | Stamp Number BE B601 Yvert et Tellier BE 1015 Stanley Gibbons BE 1606 AFA number BE 1077 Belgium BE 1015 Unificato BE 1015 |
| Stamp colour | sepia |
| Stamp use | Semi Postal stamp |
| Print run | 285.862 |
| Issue date | 08/06/1957 |
| Designer | Edouard Meert / Jean Malvaux |
| Print technique | photogravure |
| Perforation | 11 1/2 |
| Height | 27.00 mm |
| Width | 39.00 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
