Gachard

Gachard, LOUIS PROSPER, writer on the history of Belgium, was born at Paris, 12th March 1800. He spent the greater part of his life as keeper of the archives at Brussels. He died 24th December 1885. He edited from the national archives of Belgium and Spain the correspondence of William the Silent (1847–58), Philip II. (1848–59), Margaret of Austria (1867–81), and Alba (1850); and wrote Les Troubles de Gand sous Charles V. (1846), and Retraite et Mort de Charles V. (1854-55), besides other books dealing with the history of Belgium.