In 1882 France takes control of the right bank of the river Congo and establishes the city of Brazzaville, much to the dismay of the other colonial powers (King Leopold of Belgium, Great Britain and Portugal).
Cardinal Joseph Cardijn, the founder of Belgium’s Young Christian Workers, was born in Schaarbeek on 13 November 1882.
Also in that year (May 6, 1882) the North Sea Fishers Convention, (or the “International Convention for regulating the police of the North Sea fisheries outside territorial waters” is signed. It was signed by Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK.
In 1882 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy concluded the Triple Alliance, as a counterweight to the Triple Entente, which united Britain, France and Russia.
Finally I would like to let the reader dig a little bit into the subject of the house of Goblet d’Alviella built in 1882. Some of the pictures I have posted are of the façade of this remarkable house. The links I am including in my post will allow the reader to the family vault that was commissioned by Eugène Goblet d’Alviella, who also commissioned this house. The vault is located in Court-Saint-Etienne, a small town in Walloon Brabant and is remarkable because it is full of symbols. Eugène Goblet d’Alviella was a freemason and, as mentioned in the French version of the Wikipedia article over the vault, this construction reflects the “philosophical option and the universalist religious creed” professed by Mr Goblet. An interesting detail of the vault monument is that it includes, among many symbols, a swastika cross.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Goblet_d%27Alviella
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausol%C3%A9e_Goblet_d%27Alviella
http://www.patrimoine-stephanois.be/patrimoines/pmonumental/le_mausolee_goblet_ensemble.htm
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausol%C3%A9e_Goblet_d%27Alviella
http://belgiqueinsolite.canalblog.com/archives/2006/07/05/2239669.html
- A detail of the façade of the house of E. Goblet d’Alviella
- A sgraffito by Julien Dillens at the house of E. Goblet d’Alviella
- Godess Minerva at the façade of the house of E. Goblet d’Alviella
- Year 1882 depicted in Goblet d’Alviella’s house
- Façade of the house of E. Goblet d’Alviella
- House by architects L. and A. De Rycker in Rue du Congres
- Façade of the house by L. & A. in Rue du Congres
- Another house built in 1882 by architects De Rycker