Henri La Fontaine
Henri La Fontaine
The Nobel Peace Prize 1913
Name: Henri La Fontaine
Birth: 22 April 1854, Brussels, Belgium
Death: 14 May 1943, Brussels, Belgium
Residence at the time of the award: Belgium
Role: President, Permanent International Peace Bureau, Berne, Switzerland. Member, Belgian Parliament (Sénateur)
Field: Peace Movement
Lawyer, Socialist, Parliamentarian, Peace Activist. International Peace Bureau. Internationalism, “An Intellectual Parliament” for Humanity. Cofounder, Institut international de bibliographie. Education. Women’s rights. Labor. Cultural achievements.
When Germany invaded Belgium, 1914, “Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.”
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Find in a library near you. In OCLC Worldcat website search box, copy and paste name of laureate. Click. In list of books, click book of interest to you. Computer probably uses a 5-digit zip code where you are physically located. Scroll down to libraries near you which possess book. Possibly more than one person with same name.