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About Fernand Brouez
- Fernand Brouez (1861, in Wasmes – 1900, in Brussels) was the founder and publisher of La Société Nouvelle (The New Society).
- He initially edited the magazine with Belgian-born Arthur James, whom he met at the Université Libre de Bruxelles', and after 1889 with various other individuals.
- The second son of Jules Brouez and Victorine Sapin, Fernand and his older brother Paul both enrolled at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, where Fernand initially failed at his studies.
- Switching between philosophy, law and medicine, he had still not placed his candidacy for a doctorate by the age of 29.
- Yet he managed to surround himself with the elite of Belgian, international intellectuals and artists of the time.
- He believed in socialism and social conscience.
- On 20 November 1884, the first edition of La Société Nouvelle was published, financed by his father Jules Brouez.
- It would become the most important magazine on social issues, arts, sciences and literature of the epoch.
- Fernand Brouez's contribution to French speaking Europe remains unparalleled.
- He fell victim to syphilis, either by sexual contact, his future wife being a possible silent carrier given her past, or according to several credible sources, from a cut at a course in anatomy when studying medicine.
- In 1896 he married Cornelia Hubertina Doff (1858-1942), the later Neel Doff.
- The character of André in her second book, Keetje, is based upon Fernand Brouez.
- Fernand Brouez was buried in the Brouez family vault at the Ixelles Cemetery on 3 July 1900.
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