About Louis De Potter:
Louis Joseph Antoine de Potter, was a Belgian journalist who became a famous politician and literature author. Out of the more than 100 books and pamphlets, one of the most notable works was his famous Letter to my fellow citizens in which he promoted more democracy, universal electoral rights and the Belgian unity of strengths between liberals and Catholics. As one of the heroes of the Belgian revolution, he proclaimed the independence of Belgium from the Netherlands (from the terrace of the Brussels City Hall on Sept. 28, 1830), and inaugurated the first Belgian parliamentary assembly (on Nov. 10, 1830), on behalf of the (dismissing) Belgian provisional government.