Dominique Alexis Brasseur-Brasseur (14 June 1833 – 17 October 1906) was a Luxembourgish politician and jurist. He served as Mayor of Luxembourg City between 1891 and 1894.
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Brasseur was educated at the Athénée, graduating in 1853, before studying law at Heidelberg and Ghent.[1] Receiving his degree on 11 October 1858, he was called to the bar on 17 October 1861.[1] He founded, with Léon Lamort-Pescatore, the Societé des Hauts-Fourneaux de Luxembourg, of which he took full control upon Pescatore's death in 1872.[1] Two years later, Brasseur moved into a large house on rue du St-Esprit, where he would live for the rest of his life and where he would eventually die.[2]
Brasseur was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1866, representing the canton of Esch-sur-Alzette. He would represent Esch until 1890, whereupon he began representing Luxembourg City, which he continued to do until his retirement from politics in 1899.[3] He immediately made an impression, joining the attack on the government of Victor de Tornaco on 13 November 1867 for the military reforms post- the Treaty of London: an attack that would lead to the conservative government's downfall.[3]
Due in part to Brasseur's role in the downfall of Tornaco's government, the new Prime Minister, Emmanuel Servais, appointed Brasseur as a member of the nine-man committee responsible for reorganising the armed forces.[4] He was simultaneously also a member of the committee charged with reviewing the Constitution, which led to the adoption of the current constitution in 1868.[4] Brasseur was also committed to the issue of railways and argued, along with Norbert Metz and Charles Simonis, against the formation of a National Bank.[5] He was, as would his entire family be, a steadfast supporter of secularism and anti-clericalism.[6]
Brasseur entered the communal council of Luxembourg City in 1890, and was named Mayor on 27 January 1891.[7] He held the office until his replacement by Émile Mousel on 24 February 1894.[8]
Dominique was a member of the prominent Brasseur family. Dominique's son, Robert, would later become a deputy and found the Liberal League; another son, Alexis, became a composer. His brother, Pierre, was a mining industrialist. Pierre's son, and Dominique's nephew, Xavier, was a Socialist deputy and member of Luxembourg City's council. His double-barrelled surname is on account of having married his half-niece, Constance Brasseur (by his father's first marriage), whom he wed on 9 February 1860 in Liège.[9]
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edit- Mersch, Jules (1959). "Deux branches de la Famille Brasseur". In Mersch, Jules (ed.). Biographie nationale du pays de Luxembourg (in French). Luxembourg City: Victor Buck. Retrieved 2008-04-18.