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Cammaerts was born in Saint-Gilles, a suburb of Brussels on March 16, 1878.
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Émile Leon Cammaerts
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He was educated at the University of Brussels and in 1908 moved to England, although he retained his Belgian citizenship.
Career
In 1908, when he was 30, Cammaerts settled in England, and his writings on English and Belgian themes included translations of works by John Ruskin and G. K. Chesterton into French. He also wrote Discoveries in England (1930), The Laughing Prophet: The Seven Virtues and G. K. Chesterton (1937), and Albert of Belgium, Defender of Right (1935). During World War I he became known for his poems, among which were Chants patriotiques et autres poèmes (1915; Belgian Poems) and Poèmes intimes (1922).
He became professor of Belgian studies and institutions at London University in 1931 and professor emeritus in 1947. His enthusiasms also embraced nonsense verse, art, and religion, exemplified in The Poetry of Nonsense (1925), Rubens, Painter and Diplomat (1931), Flemish Painting (1945), and The Cloud and the Silver Lining (1952).
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A History of Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day (Classic Reprint)
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Albert Of Belgium: Defender Of Right
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Belgian poems
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A History of Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day (Classic Reprint)
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Quotations: "When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing. They then become capable of believing in anything. ”
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