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| - Auguste, Baron Lambermont (March 25 1819, Dion-le-Val, Brabant - March 7 1905), was a Belgian statesman. He came of a family of small farmer proprietors, who had held land during three centuries. He was intended for the priesthood and entered the seminary of Floreffe, but his energies claimed a more active sphere. He left the monastery for the University of Louvain. Here he studied law, and also prepared himself for the military examinations. At that juncture the first Carlist War broke out, and Lambermont hastened to the scene of action to support catholicism and absolutism. His services were accepted and he was entrusted with the command of two small cannon. He also acted as aide-de-camp to Colonel Durando. He greatly distinguished himself, and for his intrepidity on one occasion he was decorated with the Cross of the highest military Order of St. Ferdinand. Returning to Belgium he entered the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1842. He served in this department sixty-three years. He was closely associated with several of the most important questions in Belgian history during the last half of the 19th century, notably the freeing of the Scheldt. He was one of the very first Belgians to see the importance of developing the trade of their country, and at his own request he was attached to the commercial branch of the foreign office. The tolls imposed by the Dutch on navigation on the Scheldt strangled Belgian trade, for Antwerp was the only port of the country. The Dutch had the right to make this levy under treaties going back to the Treaty of Munster in 1648, and they clung to it still more tenaciously after Belgium separated herself in 1830-1831 from the united kingdom of the Netherlands, the London conference in 1839 fixing the toll payable to Holland at 1.5 florins per ton. From 1856 to 1863 Lambermont devoted most of his energies to the removal of this impediment. In 1856 he drew up a plan of action, and he prosecuted it with untiring perseverance until he saw it embodied in an international convention seven years later. Twenty-one powers and states attended a conference held on the question at Brussels in 1863, and on the 15th of July the treaty freeing the Scheldt was signed. For this achievement Lambermont was made a baron. Among other important conferences in which Lambermont took a leading part were those of Brussels on the usages of war, Berlin on Africa and the Congo region, and Brussels (1890) of Central African affairs and the slave trade. He was joint reporter with Baron de Courcel of the Berlin Conference in 1884-1885, and on several occasions he was chosen as arbitrator by one or other of the great European powers. But his great achievement was the freeing of the Scheldt and in token of its gratitude the city of Antwerp erected a fine monument to his memory. (en)
- Le baron François Auguste Lambermont fut un homme politique belge né le 25 mars 1819 à Limelette et décédé à Bruxelles le 6 mars 1905. Après des études de droit à Louvain, il entra au Ministère des Affaires étrangères en 1842 et y fut nommé Secrétaire général en 1859. Il y travailla durant 63 ans, dont 45 en qualité de Secrétaire général.Il représenta la Belgique à de nombreuses conférences internationales. Excellent négociateur il est parvenu à développer les relations commerciales de la Belgique avec la plupart des pays européens.Il œuvra à l'abolition de la loi préconisant le protectionnisme et mena la Belgique au libre-échange. Lambermont avait comme objectif d'affermir le statut international de la Belgique.En 1863, après des négociations longues et difficiles avec les Pays-Bas, il obtint la levée du péage sur l'Escaut, perçu depuis 1839, permettant ainsi au développement du port d'Anvers.Il est anobli par le Roi Léopold II et reçu le titre de baron. En 1885, il participa à la conférence de Berlin qui conduisit à la naissance de l'État indépendant du Congo. Auguste Lambermont a aussi été, sur le plan diplomatique, le bras droit de Léopold II pour la création de l'État indépendant du Congo et, en 1890, a animé la conférence anti-esclavagiste de Bruxelles. La commune de Schaerbeek donna son nom à une de ses plus importantes artères : le boulevard Lambermont. Catégorie:Personnalité politique belgeCatégorie:Naissance en 1819Catégorie:Décès en 1905 (fr)
- François Auguste baron Lambermont (Limelette, 25 maart 1819 - Brussel, 7 maart 1905) was een Belgisch topambtenaar, diplomaat en Minister van Staat. (nl)
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| - Auguste, Baron Lambermont (March 25 1819, Dion-le-Val, Brabant - March 7 1905), was a Belgian statesman. He came of a family of small farmer proprietors, who had held land during three centuries. He was intended for the priesthood and entered the seminary of Floreffe, but his energies claimed a more active sphere. He left the monastery for the University of Louvain. Here he studied law, and also prepared himself for the military examinations. (en)
- Le baron François Auguste Lambermont fut un homme politique belge né le 25 mars 1819 � Limelette et décédé � Bruxelles le 6 mars 1905. Après des études de droit � Louvain, il entra au Ministère des Affaires étrangères en 1842 et y fut nommé Secrétaire général en 1859. (fr)
- François Auguste baron Lambermont (Limelette, 25 maart 1819 - Brussel, 7 maart 1905) was een Belgisch topambtenaar, diplomaat en Minister van Staat. (nl)
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