François-Jean Wyns de Raucour explained

François-Jean Wyns de Raucour
Birth Date:	1779 11, df=yes
Birth Place:	Brussels, Austrian Netherlands
Death Place:	Brussels, Belgium
Nationality:	Belgian
Occupation:	politician

François-Jean Wyns de Raucour (or Raucourt), knight (6 November 1779 – 4 January 1857), was a Belgian liberal politician and mayor of the City of Brussels.

He was a lawyer and became alderman and burgomaster of Brussels (1840–1848). He was also a member of the provincial council of Brabant and a member of the Belgian Senate.

Honours

• Knight in the Order of Leopold.^[1]
• Knight of the Legion of Honour.

See also

• List of mayors of the City of Brussels

Sources

• Du Bois, A., "Les Bourgmestres de Bruxelles", in : Revue de Belgique, April 1896, pp. 365–396.
• De Paepe, Jean-Luc, Raindorf-Gérard, Christiane (red), Le Parlement Belge 1831-1894. Données Biographiques, Brussels, Académie Royale de Belgique, 1996, pp. 626–627.
• Pergameni, Ch., in : Biographie Nationale, Brussels, Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux Arts, 1866–1986, XXVII, 1936–1938, col. 422–424.

Notes and References

1. Indépendance Belge (L') 05-01-1857