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at the head of a Brussels government, emerging from art galleries and
farms, free from the Nation States!
Louis, later acclaimed as "Belgian Lafayette", also sponsor of fanciest
French literature authors and artists, was now also an Italian
Renaissance man, a "Belgian Buonarroti”, refreshing guide for the
most gracious arts and crafts across borders.
He was increasingly in favor of a Belgian government, voted by all,
independent from all foreign rulers. With the help of his young lawyer
Vande Weyer in London, he promoted a “new deal” for a separated
Belgium. It should develop its own political, historical and cultural
pillars, but based upon non “censitary” nor “aristocratic” elections.
As key reporter for the newspapers “Courrier des Pays-Bas”, “Le
Politique”, “L'Avenir” etc., Louis was an influential journalist but
completely against all forms of violence or tyranny. Nevertheless,
some fights took place in Brussels, but not many.
A known contact of Louis, General Guglielmo Pepe, involved in the
uprising in Naples in 1820 (remember: “Dumb of Portici” opera in
Belgium), settled in Brussels in 1825. Establishment soldier, Juan Van
Halen, secretly met Pepe through Louis' French friend, Charles
Rogier, future Belgian Prime Minister. In those days, plots were
everywhere… The fire in the library of Libry-Bagnano in Brussels set
fire to the revolution powders, like the fire which took place in the
“Pot-de-Fer” book-shops street in Paris, the same year.
Louis' friend, Buonarroti, also met Pepe at the home of Renier,
known for his Fables, where French and Italian exiles gathered, one
of the literary networks of Louis.
Louis had such a big address book, via his "fine arts network". He
also knew Vincenzo Gioberti, the Turinese priest who left Piedmont
after being implicated in the Genova revolution of 1833. Gioberti
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