Braibant Cemetery

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This cemetery is beautifully situated on a hillside on the route from Yvoir to Braibant, part of Ciney.

Braibant Cemetery also contains a small chapel where Jean-Baptiste Julien d'Omalius d'Halloy is buried . He is considered the first person to geologically map the French Empire.

He also played an important political role at the local level ( Mayor of Skeuvre and then Braibant), at the provincial level and then at the national level ( Governor of the Province of Namur, Councilor of State, Senator, First Vice-President of the Senate).

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Source: Willem Vandenameele

Willem Vandenameele

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