Dominique Brasseur, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetDominique Brasseur
Luxembourgian politician (1833-1906)
Date of Birth: 14-Jun-1833
Place of Birth: Esch-sur-Alzette, Canton of Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
Date of Death: 17-Nov-1906
Profession: lawyer, politician
Nationality: Luxembourg
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Dominique Brasseur
- Dominique Alexis Brasseur-Brasseur (14 June 1833 – 17 October 1906) was a Luxembourgian politician and jurist.
- He served as Mayor of Luxembourg City between 1891 and 1894. Brasseur was educated at the Athénée, graduating in 1853, before studying law at Heidelberg and Ghent.
- Receiving his degree on 11 October 1858, he was called to the bar on 17 October 1861.
- He founded, with Léon Lamort-Pescatore, the Societé des Hauts-Fourneaux de Luxembourg, of which he took full control upon Pescatore's death in 1872.
- Two years later, Brasseur moved into a large house on rue du St-Esprit, where he would live for the rest of his life and where he would eventually die.Brasseur was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1866, representing the canton of Esch-sur-Alzette.
- He would represent Esch until 1890, whereupon he began representing Luxembourg City, which he continued to do until his retirement from politics in 1899.
- He immediately made an impression, joining the attack on the government of Victor de Tornaco on 13 November 1867 for the military reforms post- the Treaty of London: an attack that would lead to the conservative government's downfall.Due in part to Brasseur's role in the downfall of Tornaco's government, the new Prime Minister, Emmanuel Servais, appointed Brasseur as a member of the nine-man committee responsible for reorganising the armed forces.
- He was simultaneously also a member of the committee charged with reviewing the Constitution, which led to the adoption of the current constitution in 1868.
- Brasseur was also committed to the issue of railways and argued, along with Norbert Metz and Charles Simonis, against the formation of a National Bank.
- He was, as would his entire family be, a steadfast supporter of secularism and anti-clericalism.Brasseur entered the communal council of Luxembourg City in 1890, and was named Mayor on 27 January 1891.
- He held the office until his replacement by Émile Mousel on 24 February 1894.Dominique was a member of the prominent Brasseur family.
- Dominique's son, Robert, would later become a deputy and found the Liberal League; another son, Alexis, became a composer.
- His brother, Pierre, was a mining industrialist.
- Pierre's son, and Dominique's nephew, Xavier, was a Socialist deputy and member of Luxembourg City's council.
- His double-barrelled surname is on account of having married his half-niece, Constance Brasseur (by his father's first marriage), whom he wed on 9 February 1860 in Liège.
Read more at Wikipedia