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Camille Buffin
1871–1928
A Belgian baron and historian, he wrote with urgency and admiration about his country’s courage in war and its political past. His books bring together eyewitness accounts, documents, and a strong sense of national memory.
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Brave Belgians
by Camille Buffin
About the author
Writing in the early 20th century, Camille Buffin was a Belgian author and baron born in 1871 and deceased in 1928. Library and catalog records connect him with historical and documentary works rather than fiction, especially books focused on Belgium’s political life and wartime experience.
He is best known for La Belgique héroïque et vaillante (1916), a collection of fighters’ accounts from World War I, and for Brave Belgians (1918), the English version of that work. Catalog records also list him as the author of Léopold Ier: oracle politique de l'Europe (1927) and as the editor or compiler of documentary material on the Belgian Revolution and the campaign of 1830–1831.
That mix of witness testimony, patriotic history, and archival interest gives his work a clear character: he wrote to preserve memory. For listeners drawn to firsthand stories and to the making of modern Belgium, his books offer a direct window into how one contemporary writer understood heroism, leadership, and national identity.