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France's first experience with an upper house was under the Directory from 1795 to 1799, when the Council of Ancients was the upper chamber. There were Senates in both the First and Second Empires (the former being known as the Sénat conservateur, the latter as the French Senate), but these were only nominally legislative bodies – technically they were not legislative, but rather advisory ...
The House of Representatives (Dutch: Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal [ˈtʋeːdə ˈkaːmər dɛr ˈstaːtə(ŋ) ɣeːnəˈraːl] ⓘ, literally "Second Chamber of the States General", or simply Tweede Kamer) is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of the Netherlands, the States General, the other one being the Senate.
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The Senate (Dutch: Senaat ⓘ; French: Sénat ⓘ; German: Senat ⓘ) is one of the two chambers of the bicameral Federal Parliament of Belgium, the other being the Chamber of Representatives.
He was born in Brussels, the son of Cornelis van Aarsens, also a statesman. His talents commended him to the notice of Advocate Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, who sent him, at the age of 26 years, as a diplomatic agent of the states-general to the court of France. He took a considerable part in the negotiations of the Twelve Years' Truce in 1609. [1]
Frans Anneessens (1660–1719), Flemish protest leader; Frans van Anraat (born 1942), Dutch businessman and convicted war criminal; Frans Badens (fl. 1571–1618), Flemish painter; Frans Bak (born 1958), Danish composer, choral conductor, saxophonist, and pianist; Frans Decker (1684–1751), 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands
Willem Anne Assueer Jacob, Baron Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (18 September 1834 – 31 August 1889) was a Dutch nobleman and politician. [1] He served as President of the Senate from 1888 until his death in 1889.