About Henri Carton de Wiart
Henry Victor Marie Ghislain, Count Carton de Wiart (31 January 1869 – 6 May 1951) was a Belgian writer and statesman who served as the Prime Minister of Belgium from 20 November 1920 to 16 December 1921. == Early life == On 31 January 1869, Henry Carton de Wiart was born in Brussels into the aristocratic house of Carton de Wiart as the son of Diégo Benjamin Constant Carton de Wiart and Marie Clémence Jeanne Cammaerts. He was educated at Jesuit colleges in Aalst and Brussels and then studied philosophy at the Institut Saint-Louis in Brussels before entering the Faculty of Law at the Université libre de Bruxelles. While a student he spent some months in Paris, where he took courses at the Institut Catholique de Paris and the École des Sciences Politiques and attended Paul Brouardel's lectures on forensic medicine, and also at the University of Bonn, where he took a course in Sociology. == Career == In 1890 Carton de Wiart was called to the bar in Brussels, as an associate of Edmond Picard. He became noted for his courtroom oratory, and published in several legal journals, as well as writing pieces for the Journal de Bruxelles. In 1894, aged 25, he founded the cultural review Durendal, together with Pol Demade and Henry Moeller. As a student he was already taking an interest in the social question and after the publication of the papal encyclical Rerum novarum in 1891 he began to be active in democratic politics, helping found a Christian-democratic newspaper under the title L'Avenir social (The Social Future), that ran until December 1894, and sitting on the board of the Ligue Démocratique Belge. In 1895 he was a co-founder of the newspaper La Justice sociale (Social Justice), which ran until 1902. In 1896 Carton de Wiart was elected to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives as a left-wing member of the Catholic Party.
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