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Place of Birth: Marcinelle, Wallonia, Belgium
About Paul Pastur
- Paul Pastur (7 February 1866 – 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. Pastur was born on 7 February 1886 in Marcinelle, Belgium.
- 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.
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