POTTER United Families

During that period, heavy military operations were being prepared in
order to defend the new Belgian borders. Louis’ daughter Justa was
falling in love with colonel Henri Brialmont, from Liège.
In a few months, he will become the chief of the new Belgian Army
and the future wing officer of the next King of the Belgians… Here
is a proposal to exchange prisoners with the Dutch by which the
provisional government refuses because not equitable “one-to-one”:
Another measure that was voted on while Louis was leading the
Provisional Government was the establishment of the property
requirements for voting and applying for office.
These standards were set very high, and thus were very restrictive. It
is unlikely that Louis, who was in favor of universal suffrage as early
as 1831, would have supported these elitist standards. The one
measure that we do know he regretted not having achieved was the
abolition of the death penalty, an attitude indeed ahead of its time.
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