The Cercle Gaulois or Cercle Royal Gaulois Artistique et Littéraire is a Belgian

Belgium

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 club

Club

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. The club has the aim of constituting a friendly, intellectual, artistic and literary, meeting place, free of any political, cultural or philosophical tendency. The current President is Alain Siaens.

The club is situated in Brussels Park, behind the Théâtre Royal du Parc

Théâtre Royal du Parc

The Théâtre Royal du Parc is a theatre at 3, Rue de la Loi in Brussels, on the edge of the Parc de Bruxelles facing the Federal Parliament...

, on Rue de la Loi.

History

The Cercle Royal Artistique et Littéraire (E: Artistic and Literary Royal Circle) was founded in Brussels

Brussels

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 on 23 November 1848. The Cercle de la Toison d’Or (e: Circle of the Golden Fleece) was founded in Brussels on 23 December 1911, its name was changed on 13 June 1919 into Cercle Gaulois (E: Gallic Circle). The Cercle Gaulois became Cercle Royal Gaulois (E: Gallic Royal Cercle) by authorization of his Majesty King Leopold III of Belgium

Leopold III of Belgium

Leopold III reigned as King of the Belgians from 1934 until 1951, when he abdicated in favour of the Heir Apparent,...

 on 16 February 1937. In 1950 the Cercle Royal Gaulois merged with the Cercle Royal Artistique et Littéraire, and changed its name into Cercle Royal Gaulois Artistique et Littéraire.

Notable members

• Etienne Davignon
  Étienne Davignon
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• Armand Dedecker
• Albert Frère
  Albert Frère
  Albert, Baron Frère is a Belgian businessman and the richest man in Belgium....
  
  
• Pierre Harmel
  Pierre Harmel
  Pierre Charles José Marie Harmel, from 1991 Count Harmel was a Belgian lawyer, Christian Democratic politician and diplomat...
  
  
• Tony Mary
  Tony Mary
  -Education:He graduated as a Master in Economic Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 1973.-Career:He started his career at IBM, where he became Country General Manager for IBM Belgium and Luxemburg in 1990. In 1993 he founded Synergia, which he led until July 1995. From August 1995 until...
  
  
• Gérard Mestrallet
  Gérard Mestrallet
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• Diego du Monceau de Bergendal
• Michel Tilmant
  Michel Tilmant
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• Karel Van Miert
  Karel Van Miert
  Karel Van Miert was a socialist Flemish politician.He was born in Oud-Turnhout. He studied at Ghent University and gained a degree in diplomatic sciences. In 1976 he became adjunct-national secretary of the – at that time – unitary Belgian socialist party...
  
  

See also

• Cercle Royal du Parc
  Cercle Royal du Parc
  The Cercle Royal du Parc is a Belgian club, located in Ixelles, with most members originating from nobility.-History:The Cercle Royal du Parc was founded in 1842 when a group of Belgicist noblemen left the Orangist Cercle de l'Union....
  
  
• Cercle de Lorraine
  Cercle de Lorraine
  The Cercle de Lorraine or Club van Lotharingen is a Belgian business club, located in Uccle, Belgium. The club was founded in Brussels in 1998, and it wants to bring together, distinguished and representative personalities from the Belgian financial community, French speaking as well as Dutch...
  
  
• De Warande
  De Warande (Club)
  De Warande is a Flemish business club, located in Brussels, Belgium. The club was founded in Brussels in 1988, by Flemish businesspeople and the Flemish government. The club wants to bring together distinguished and representative personalities from the Flemish business community...
  
  
• Federation of Belgian Enterprises
  Federation of Belgian Enterprises
  The Federation of Enterprises in Belgium is the only Belgian non-profit organization representing companies in all three regions of Belgium. Its members, the different Belgian sectorial employers' organizations, represent companies in key industrial and service sectors. All in all, it represents...
  
  

Source

• Remarks by Ambassador Korologos at the Cercle Royal Gaulois Luncheon Thursday, March 17, 2005
• Assemblée générale de la Société de la Légion d’Honneur - 15 novembre 2006
• Jan Puype, De elite van België - Welkom in de club, Van Halewyck

External links

• Cercle Gaulois