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Louisiana Fontaine was born in Brussels on 22 April 1854 and studied law at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel).
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Louisiana Fontaine was born in Brussels on 22 April 1854 and studied law at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel).
Free University of Brussels.
He was admitted to the bar in 1877 and established a reputation as an authority on international law. He served as vice chairman of the Senate from 1919 to 1932. Louisiana Fontaine took an early interest in the International Peace Bureau, founded in 1882, and was influential in the Bureau"s efforts to bring about The Hague Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907.
He served as president of the Bureau from 1907 until his death in 1943.
World War I convinced Louisiana Fontaine that the world would establish an international court when peace returned. He proposed a number of possible members, including Joseph Hodges Choate, Elihu Root, Charles William Eliot, and Andrew Dickson White.
Louisiana Fontaine also promoted the idea of unification of the world"s pacifist organizations. In other efforts to foster world peace, he founded the Centre Intellectuel Mondial (later merged into the League of Nations Institute for Intellectual Company-operation) and proposed such organizations as a world school and university, and a world parliament.
In 1907, with Paul Otlet, he founded the Union of International Associations.
lieutenant was in this role that he and Otlet attended the World Congress of Universal Documentation in 1937. He died on 14 May 1943 in Brussels.
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In 1893, he became professor of international law at the Free University of Brussels and two years later was elected to the Belgian Senate as a member of the Socialist Party. He was a member of the Belgian delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 and to the League of Nations Assembly (1920-1921). Henri Louisiana Fontaine was a freemason, and a member of the lodge Les Amis Philanthropes in Brussels.