Nicolas Defrêcheux

Nicolas Defrêcheux was born in Liège on 10 February 1825. A good pupil at the college of Huy, he had to abandon his mining engineering studies to support his family and worked at the zinc works of the Vieille-Montagne. Married in 1851, he took over his wife's family's bakery. In 1860 he joined the rectorate of the University of Liège as a secretary, then was an usher at the faculty of medicine until his death. From 1857 to 1874 he kept the Walloon pages of a popular almanac. He died in Herstal on 26 December 1874.

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• PoetryLèyîz-m' plorerNicolas Defrêcheux · 1854not translated into EnglishLiterature