Viscount Joseph Édouard Sébastien de Walckiers de Tronchiennes (7 November 1758 - 17 April 1837) was a Brussels-born banker.

Life

He was the son of viscount and of Dieudonnée Louise Josephine de Nettine, heir to the Nettine bank in Brussels, founded in 1733 by her father Matthias de Nettine. Matthias' widow Barbe Stoupy inherited the bank in 1749: The Nettine bank was the most important in the

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(later known as the Austrian Netherlands): Édouard de Walckiers' first marriage was in 1783 to Barbe de Reul (1767-1791), with whom he had one child, Louise Jeanne (1784-1825), who in 1801 married count Alexandre Batowski (1758-1824). In 1799 he married his second wife, Rose-Françoise Renaut (1773-1837), with whom he had Charles-Louis, 3rd viscount de Walckiers (1793-1849) and Alphonse 4th viscount de Walckiers (1814-1879), who had issue. On 16 January 1784 Joseph Édouard de Walckiers was made counsellor-receiver-general of finances for the Austrian Netherlands In 1788 he built

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to designs by

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- in the 20th century this became prince Albert's residence. During the

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he became a member of the secret society

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. He also financed the Vonckists and in March 1790 fled to France, where he stayed for a time at the château de Hem near Lille Around 1791 he purchased the

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from Philippe-Égalité for 750,000 francs before reselling it to Laborde de Méréville in 1792 for 950,000 francs. In March 1794 he was denounced as an Austrian agent and as a speculator on the exchange. He fled to

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but was removed from the list of émigrés on 29 May 1800 and returned to France under the

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, dying in Paris in 1837, more or less ruined.Bruneel, ''op. cit.'', p. 646

Bibliography (in French)

Suzanne Tassier Suzanne Tassier-Charlier (4 June 1898 - 12 March 1956) was a Belgian historian, political activist, feminist, and Professeur ordinaire. She was the first Belgian woman to be awarded a higher education degree in her country. Biography Suzanne Tass ...

, ''Les démocrates belges de 1789'', Bruxelles, 1930. *

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, ''Financiers et comédiens au XVIIIe siècle'', Bruxelles, Goemaere, 1969. * Claude Bruneel, ''Les grands commis du gouvernement des Pays-Bas autrichiens'', Bruxelles, 2001, . * Michèle Galand, « Noblesse d’affaires dans les Pays-Bas autrichiens : Adrien Ange de Walckiers (1721-1799) », dans : ''Patrons, gens d’affaires et banquiers. Hommages à Ginette Kurgan-van Hentenryk'', (S. Jaumain et K. Bertrams éditeurs), Bruxelles, 2004, . * Suzanne Tassier, « Édouard de Walckiers promoteur de l'union des Belges et des Liégeois, 1792 », ''Revue de l'Université de Bruxelles'', décembre 1938-janvier 1939, no. 2, p. 139-165 *

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, ''Correspondance générale'', t. III, édition de Béatrice Jasinski, Pauvert, 1968, p. 27.
Fiche généalogique de Joseph Édouard Sébastien de Walckiers de Tronchiennes

References

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