"I think sire, that you would be wrong to give the slightest publicity to this writing, and even to communicate it to the person who asked you for it."

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Diplomats of BelgiumPeople from BelgiumBelgian Colonial EmpireBelgian generalsPeople from Tarbes
Original Language: English

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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), 5. A prospectus by the military Chazal and Brialmont, The Importance of General Chazal in Colonial Politics. Minister Chazal to Prince Leopold about a booklet he wrote "Completion of the work of 1830" in which he openly pleads for the invasion of the Netherlands, for the reunification of Catholics under one crown, and his ambitions to create a colonial overseas