Prosper de Haulleville

Prosper de Haulleville (1830–1898), who also wrote under the pen name Félix de Breux, was a Belgian journalist and author who was influential on his country's adoption of universal manhood suffrage with plural voting and proportional representation.

Life Haulleville was born in Luxembourg on 28 May 1830 and was orphaned at an early age. He was raised by uncles, and educated at state secondary schools in Virton, Arlon and Liège. Raised a non-believer, at the age of 16 he heard a sermon by Lacordaire that entirely changed his outlook. He also published contemporary writers associated with La Jeune Belgique. Since 1888 he had also been lecturing on history and constitutional law at the Royal Military Academy. Les Catholiques et les libertés constitutionnelles en Belgique (1863) Les Institutions representatives en Autriche (1863) L'Allemagne depuis la Guerre de Sept Ans (1868) De l'enseignement primaire en Belgique (1870) La Nationalité belge; ou Flamands et Wallons (1870) De l'avenir des Peuples catholiques (1876) German translation as Die Zukunft der katholischen Völker (1876) English translation as Protestant and Catholic Civilization Compared: The Future of Catholic Peoples (1878) Les nonciatures apostoliques en Belgique depuis 1830 (1890) Projet de loi organisant la représentation des intérêts au Sénat (1891) Portraits et silhouettes (2 vols., 1892-1893) Étude sur le Sénat (1897)