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Charles Latour Rogier (17 August 1800–27 May 1885) was a Belgian statesman and a leader in the Belgian Revolution of 1830. He was born at Saint-Quentin, France, studied law at Liège and was admitted to the bar, devoting himself, however, with greater zeal to journalistic campaigns against the Dutch rule in Belgium. Upon the outbreak of the insurrection at Brussels in August, 1830, Rogier went to Brussels, where he gained note as one of the most active among the patriot leaders. He became a member of the provisional government established in October, and after the election of Leopold as King, in June, 1831, was made Governor of Antwerp. He was Cabinet Chief of Belgium on three separate occasions first from 1832 to 1834, secondly from 1847 to 1852, and thirdly from 1857 to 1868. He brought into existence the Belgian railway system during his first stint as an Interior Prime Minister. From 1861 to 1868 he was Minister for Foreign Affairs.

He descended from a Belgian family settled in the department of the Nord in France. His father, an officer in the French army, perished in the Russian campaign of 1812; and the family moved to Liege, where the eldest son, Firmin, held a professorship. Charles, after being called to the bar, founded, in collaboration with his lifelong friends, Paul Devaux and Joseph Lebeau, the journal Mathieu Laensberg (afterwards Le Politique), which by its ardent patriotism and its attacks on the Dutch administration soon acquired a widespread influence.

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