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Biographie Nationale
This is a French language biographical dictionary of notable Belgians,
published by the Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des
beaux-arts de Belgique. The original version was published in 27 volumes between 1866 and 1932. Volume 28 was an index volume, published in 1944. There are then Supplement volumes published between 1957 and 1986. Following this, 13 volumes of "Nouvelle Biographie Nationale" have been published to date between 1988 and 2016.
The Académie has the set on their website, with 3 links:
At this writing, it can be difficult to access the individual digitized volumes via the official website.
Below we link directly to their scanned PDF files, as well as to independent scans of some volumes at the Internet Archive, and transcriptions in progress at
Wikisource. (We only link to volumes at those other sites
published prior to 1922, not being sure of the US copyright status
of later volumes.)
Original set
Supplement set
- Volume 29: Supplement 1 (1957):
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- Volume 30: Supplement 2 (1959):
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- Volume 31: Supplement 3 (1962):
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- Volume 32: Supplement 4 (1964):
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- Volume 33: Supplement 5 (1966):
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- Volume 34: Supplement 6 (1968):
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- Volume 35: Supplement 7 (1969):
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- Volume 36: Supplement 8 (1983): This index volume is not online, but its function is replicated by the Personnalités search and browse
- Volume 37: Supplement 9 (1972):
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- Volume 38: Supplement 10 (1974):
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- Volume 39: Supplement 11 (1976):
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- Volume 40: Supplement 12 (1978):
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- Volume 41: Supplement 13 (1980):
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- Volume 42: Supplement 14 (1982):
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- Volume 43: Supplement 15 (1984):
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- Volume 44: Supplement 16 (1986):
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Nouvelle Biographie Nationale
- Volume 1 (1988):
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- Volume 2 (1990):
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- Volume 3 (1994):
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- Volume 4 (1997):
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- Volume 5 (1999):
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- Volume 6 (2001):
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- Volume 7 (2003):
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- Volume 8 (2005):
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- Volume 9 (2007):
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- Volumes 10-13 (2010-2016) do not appear to be downloadable as complete volumes at this writing. Page images for at least some of the entries can be found via the Personnalités search and browse
This is a "meta-book", which stitches together separate files elsewhere on the Web as they appeared in a previously published book. It is subject to removal if someone produces an integrated edition. If that happens, The Online Books Page will point to the integrated version.