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Bronze medal, Belgium around 1940.
Engraver : N Declerck.
Dimension : 79 mm by 60 mm.
Weight : 240 g.
Metal : Bronze.
Hallmark on the edge (mark on the edge) triangle + bronze.
Camille Looten (Noordpeene, October 16, 1855 - Lille, November 27, 1941).
He began his studies in Noordpeene, in French Flanders, under the direction of his father, a municipal teacher, and continued them at the minor seminary of Cambrai. They end at the Catholic University of Lille which has just been founded after the vote of the 1875 law on private higher education.
Camille Looten graduated with a degree in letters in 1877.
He was ordained priest in Cambrai in 1880.
In 1900, he succeeded as president of the Flemish Committee of France to Mr Bonvarlet who had just died. He has held this position for over 41 years. Camille Looten is deeply attached to the Flemish language which he knows perfectly. He suffered from the disrepute with which he was too often surrounded and from the ban on teaching it at school.
He defends the rights of West Flemish and encourages its study. In 1935, he refused the Legion of Honor.
He died in Lille in 1941.
Canon Looten was the uncle of Paul Hazard.
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