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I was brought up a bit short by the passing mention implying that Catholics were more likely to be Boy Scouts than, say, Protestants. Is there any evidence for this? Scouting was invented in Britain, and first took wide hold in the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, as well as the US, whose populations (excluding South African blacks) are majority-Protestant. Admittedly, Malta was the first country outside the UK to take up the movement. Is there some general reputation I am unaware of for a greater Catholic affinity, past or present, for scouting? LeoO3 06:22, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
In Belgium the situation was and still to a certain extent is that Catholics become scouts. There are other youth organs outside the Church but as with many things in Belgium, Political, Language and Religious lines determine association in civil society. Even healthcare programs are split by catholic, socialist, liberal and independant pillars.
See : Pillarization —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.41.142.242 (talk) 02:20, 26 July 2005
The article on Carlo Sforza cites Assouline's biography in saying that Hergé's father may have been an illegitimate son of Sforza's father-in-law Gaston Errembault de Dudzeele (died 1929), whose (stub) article I have just created. Is someone with a copy able to verify this? Thanks. Opera hat (talk) 17:27, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, Assouline does say that on pp.4-5 of the cited edition. "In 1882 Marie Dewigne left her family home in Uccle to take up residence in Anderlecht. Within the year she gave birth to twin boys, Leon and Alexis, of an unknown father. Until then the young mother had been a chambermaid in the service of the Countess Helene Errembault de Dudzeele (1849-1900)... The countess educated the twins as if they were her own children... Eventually Marie Dewigne was married off to Philippe Remi, a much younger man, a printer by trade. It was a white marriage; the boys were recognised by him and took his name. The boys were shadowed by a rumor [US spelling in original]... The implication was that their father was someone from the chateau, and for some time it was simply rumored that they were of royal descent. After all, King Leopold II, a friend of the family, often stayed at Chaumont-Gistoux. Alternatively a more reasonable aristocratic origin was attributed to them. Count Gaston Errembault de Dudzeele (1847-1929), a career diplomat, wasn't always away on a mission." Assouline says that the subject was taboo within the family and Herge later told a cousin that his parents would not say who his grandfather was because, according to them, it would make him big-headed if he knew. Khamba Tendal (talk) 16:33, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
This fact is also stated in the Guardian in 1999 (so can't be copied from Wikipedia): [1] "Hergé was born in 1907. His father, who worked for a childrens outfitters, was Walloon, his mother Flemish." Fram (talk) 16:59, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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