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Karel Broeckaert

Died in 1826

Karel Broeckaert was born in Ghent on 22 May 1767. After the arrival of the French, he launched in December 1792 a daily sheet modelled on Hébert's, which he stopped in March 1793 after seventy issues. Under the Directory, from 1795 to 1798, he published twice a week a newspaper in which three invented characters discuss the news: a tolerant republican, a Jacobin and a man of the Ancien Régime who speaks dialect. Appointed in 1800 clerk of the justice of the peace of Aalst, he joined the chamber of rhetoric there and died there on 11 August 1826.

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