Count Jean Charles Snoy et d'Oppuers (2 July 1907, Braine-l'Alleud

Braine-l'Alleud

Braine-l'Alleud is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant, about 20 kilometers south of Brussels. The Braine-l'Alleud municipality includes the former municipalities of Braine-l'Alleud proper, Ophain-Bois-Seigneur-Isaac, and Lillois-Witterzée. It also includes...

, Walloon Brabant

Walloon Brabant

Walloon Brabant is a province of Wallonia in Belgium. It borders on the province of Flemish Brabant and the provinces of Liège, Namur and Hainaut . Its capital is Wavre...

 – 17 May 1991), son of Baron Thierry Snoy, was a Belgian

Belgium

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 civil servant, diplomat

Diplomat

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 and Roman Catholic politician for the PSC-CVP

Christian Social Party (Belgium, defunct)

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. He was married to Countess Nathalie d'Alcantara and they lived at the Snoy family estate, the Castle of Bois-Seigneur-Isaac.

He graduated in law and Thomistic philosophy

Thomism

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 at the Catholic University of Leuven

Catholic University of Leuven

The Catholic University of Leuven, or of Louvain, was the largest, oldest and most prominent university in Belgium. The university was founded in 1425 as the University of Leuven by John IV, Duke of Brabant and approved by a Papal bull by Pope Martin V.During France's occupation of Belgium in the...

. He was Secretary-General of the Belgian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Head of the Belgian Delegation to the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom

Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom

The Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom was held in Brussels and started on 26 June 1956 with a session in the Grand Salon of the Belgian Foreign Ministry. The negotiations went on at the Castle of the Valley of the Duchess in Auderghem and would continue until March 1957...

 at the Castle of the Valley of the Duchess

Castle of the Valley of the Duchess

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 in 1956 and signed the Treaties of Rome for Belgium

Belgium

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, together with Paul-Henri Spaak

Paul-Henri Spaak

Paul Henri Charles Spaak was a Belgian Socialist politician and statesman.-Early life:Paul-Henri Spaak was born on 25 January 1899 in Schaerbeek, Belgium, to a distinguished Belgian family. His grandfather, Paul Janson was an important member of the Liberal Party...

 in 1957. From 1982 until 1984, he was President of the European League for Economic Cooperation

European League for Economic Cooperation

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Source

• Jean Charles Snoy et d'Oppuers (Dutch)
• Memorandum from Paul-Henri Spaak, President of the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom (Brussels, 12 October 1956), CEE, CM3/NEGO/243
• Snoy et d'Oppuers, Jean-Charles, , European revival and the Rome Treaties - The Intergovernmental Committee established by the Messina Conference - The Spaak Report (21 April 1956), Conference held from 25 to 28 March 1987 in Rome.
• Castle of Bois-Seigneur-Isaac