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Georges Eekhoud

Died in 1927

Georges Eekhoud was born in Antwerp on 27 May 1854 into a well-to-do middle-class family. A pupil at a Swiss boarding school and then at the Military School in Brussels, he was an editor at L'Étoile belge from 1881 and took part in La Jeune Belgique before founding The Red Cock Flies to Heaven. A correspondent of the Mercure de France, he adapted Marlowe and other Elizabethan dramatists, and gave public lectures on literature, which he lost in 1918 because of his pacifist statements. Prosecuted in 1900 over one of his novels, he was acquitted. He died in Schaerbeek on 29 May 1927.

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