BROQUEVILLE, CHARLES MARIE PIERRE AL BERT, COMTE DE (186o— ), Belgian politician, was born at Moll, Belgium, Dec. 4, 186o. From 1892 to 1919 he was Catholic deputy for Turnhout, Limbourg. From 1910-12 he was minister of railways, posts and telegraphs, and he became prime minister on June 18, 1911. After the elections of he formed a new cabinet, in which he acted as minister of war until Aug. 1917. He introduced an army bill, making general service per sonal and obligatory, which became law in 1913. In 1914 de Broqueville was responsible for the mobilization of the Belgian army. While at Havre, after the battle of Yser, he undertook the reorganization of the army and established munition factories.
In consequence of the peace proposals emanating from Prince Sixte de Bourbon and the emissaries of von der Lancken, the German civil representative in Brussels, in 1917 de Broqueville handed in his resignation as head of the cabinet. In 1917 he became foreign minister, afterwards acting as minister of recon struction until May 1918. He became a minister of state on May 31, 1918, and was minister of the interior in M. Delacroix's cabinet from Nov. of that year until Nov. 1919, when he was elected senator for the province of Namur. He was prime minister from 1932 till Nov. 1934.