Emmanuel de Bethune, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Mayor of Kortrijk, Belgium
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Place of Birth: Kortrijk, Flemish Region, Belgium
About Emmanuel de Bethune
- Baron Emmanuel Pierre Marie Ghislain de Bethune (18 July 1930 – 4 November 2011) was a Belgian politician.
- He was the Mayor of Kortrijk from 1987 to 1989 and again from 1995 to 2000.
- He went on to found the Bethune Foundation, a foundation used to preserve the library collections of the Bethune family. Bethune died on 4 November 2011, aged 81.
- He is survived by his four children including his daughter, the current Belgian Senate President, Sabine de Bethune.
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