Yves Vander Cruysen Explained

Yves Vander Cruysen
Birth Date:	9 March 1963
Birth Place:	Uccle, Belgium
Nationality:	Belgian
Occupation:	Historian

Yves Vander Cruysen (9 March 1963 – 24 November 2020) was a Belgian historian and political activist who served as senior alderman of Waterloo.

Biography

After studying to become a journalist, Cruysen began his career working for L'Avenir and L'Instant. He then became a spokesman for the Walloon Minister of the Economy and started several television programmes, including Les balades de Sandrine and L'odyssée de l'Objet. He helped upgrade the site of the Battle of Waterloo and sat on the executive board of Wallonie-Bruxelles Tourisme.

He was Alderman of Culture of Waterloo from 1991 until his death and was a Provincial Councillor for Walloon Brabant from 1999 until his death. Cruysen founded, served as administrator of the, and created the Belgo-Festival de Waterloo. He also started the, the Grandes Conférences Historiques de Waterloo, and the Association de promotion du cinéma belge CinéWa. He created the "Waterloo Connection", which brought international attention to the Battle of Waterloo.^[1]

Yves Vander Cruysen died of COVID-19 on 24 November 2020, at the age of 57.^[2]

Bibliography

• Trois siècles d’Histoire à Waterloo (1987)
• Les Cent Jours de Waterloo (1990)
• Waterloo (1996)
• Récits de guerre en Brabant wallon (2004)^[3]
• Un siècle d’histoire en Brabant wallon (2007)
• La Wallonie vue par les grands écrivains (2011)
• Curieuses histoires des aventures belges. Quand nous partions à la conquête du Monde (2011)^[4]
• Curieuses histoires des inventeurs belges (2012)^[5]
• Pierre Minuit, l’homme qui acheta Manhattan (2013)^{[6] [7]}
• Made in France, non c’est du Belge (2013)^[8]
• Waterloo démythifié (2014)^[9]
• De Waterloo à Sainte-Hélène (2015)
• Les plus belles traces de Victor Hugo en Belgique (2016)^{[10] [11]}
• Waterloo, 70 000 ans d’histoires (2017)^{[12] [13]}

Distinctions

• Knight of the Order of Leopold
• Knight of the Order of Leopold II

Notes and References

1. Web site: De l'Antarctique aux Caraïbes. 4 October 2017. La Voix de l'Est. French.
2. Web site: Le premier échevin de Waterloo, Yves Vander Cruysen, est décédé du coronavirus. 25 November 2020. DH Les Sports. French.
3. Web site: Des récits de guerre pour éviter de "banaliser" la guerre. 16 November 2004. DH Les Sports. French.
4. Web site: Curieuses histoires des aventures belges. 8 February 2011. RBTF. French.
5. Web site: Les Belges, inventeurs de génie. 8 February 2012. DH Les Sports. French.
6. Web site: New York? Gesticht door een Belg. 19 October 2013. De Morgen. Dutch.
7. Web site: 'Niet een Hollander, maar een Belg stichtte New York'. 21 October 2013. De Volkskrant. Dutch.
8. Web site: "Les Belges n'ont pas le crâne vide". 23 February 2014. DH Les Sports. French.
9. Web site: De Hugo à Abba, dix choses insolites sur Waterloo. 18 June 2015. Le Point. French.
10. Web site: Yves Vander Cruysen, Le plus belles traces de Victor Hugo en Belgique. 25 March 2016. AREAW. French.
11. Web site: Victor Hugo: "Moi, je les aime fort ces bons Belges!". 19 May 2016. Le Point. French.
12. Web site: 70.000 ans d'histoires insolites sur Waterloo. 24 May 2017. DH Les Sports. French.
13. Web site: Une monographie de plus de 450 pages consacrée à Waterloo. 24 May 2017. RBTF. French.