François-Jean Wyns de Raucourt, knight (Brussels

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, 6 November 1779-Brussels, 4 January 1857), was a Belgian

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 liberal politician and burgomaster

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 of Brussels.

He was a lawyer

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 and became alderman

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 and burgomaster of Brussels (1840–1848). François-Jean Wyns de Raucourt was also a member of the provincial council of Brabant

Province of Brabant

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 and a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives.

Source

• Du Bois, A., "Les Bourgmestres de Bruxelles", in : Revue de Belgique, April 1896, pp. 365–396.
• De Paepe, Jean-Luc, Raindorf-Gérard, Christiane (red), Le Parlement Belge 1831-1894. Données Biographiques, Brussels, Académie Royale de Belgique, 1996, pp. 626–627.
• Pergameni, Ch., in : Biographie Nationale, Brussels, Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux Arts, 1866–1986, XXVII, 1936–1938, col. 422-424.