Nation-Building: the Foundation of Belgium

Philip Mansel recalls the creation of the kingdom of Belgium in 1831, in a successful act of co-operation between London, Paris and Brussels.

Philip Mansel | Published in History Today Volume 56 Issue 5 May 2006

Episode of the Belgian Revolution of 1830, Egide Charles Gustave Wappers (1834), in the Musée d'Art Ancien, Brussels.

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