Pierre Paulus (1881–1959), later Baron Pierre Paulus de Châtelet, was a

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painter. He is best known as the

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of the "bold rooster" (french: coq hardi) adopted on 3 July 1913 as the symbol of the

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and today the

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. Paulus gained notability during the Walloon Art Exposition of Charleroi in 1911 and, in the interwar period, he held several exhibitions in

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and in the

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Biography in "Cent Wallons du Siècle"
Institut Jules Destrée, Charleroi, 1995

Biography
at the Dictionnaire des Wallons Barons of Belgium Walloon movement activists Walloon people People from Châtelet 1881 births 1959 deaths 20th-century Belgian painters {{Belgium-painter-stub