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"Belgium is a boiler that needs valves."

— Leopold I of Belgium

January 1, 1970

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All the King's Men' A search for the colonial ideas of some advisers and "accomplices" of Leopold II (1853-1892). (Hannes Vanhauwaert), 6. Baron Auguste Lambermont (1819-1905), The uncrowned king of economic liberalism Leopold I once said to Lambermont. DE ROBIANO, A. Baron Lambermont: His life and his Work. Brussel, 1905, 59.

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All the King's Men' A search for the colonial ideas of some advisers and "accomplices" of Leopold II (1853-1892). (Hannes Vanhauwaert), 6. Baron Auguste Lambermont (1819-1905), The uncrowned king of economic liberalism Leopold I once said to Lambermont. DE ROBIANO, A. Baron Lambermont: His life and his Work. Brussel, 1905, 59.