Émile Cammaerts

Émile Leon Cammaerts CBE (16 March 1878 in Saint-Gilles, Belgium – 2 November 1953, Radlett, Hertfordshire) was a Belgian playwright, poet (including war poet) and author who wrote primarily in English and French.

Cammaerts translated three books by art, history and landscape expert John Ruskin and selected G. K. Chesterton Father Brown detective stories in ''La clairvoyance du père Brown''.

He became Professor of Belgian Studies at the University of London in 1933, most of his works and papers are held there in the Senate House Library.

Cammaerts is the author of a famous quotation (often mistakenly attributed to G. K. Chesterton) in his study on Chesterton:

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    Upon this rock by Cammaerts, Emile, 1878-1953

    New York ; London : Harper & Brothers, 1943
    6th ed.
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    The childhood of Christ as seen by the primitive masters. by Cammaerts, Emile, 1878-1953

    New York : The Macmillan company, 1922
    Format: Book


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    The peace that was left. by Cammaerts, Emile, 1878-1953

    London : The Cresset press, 1945
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    The peace that is left by Cammaerts, Emile, 1878-1953

    New York : Harper, 1945
    Format: Book


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    Rubens, painter and diplomat, by Cammaerts, Emile, 1878-1953

    London, Faber ltd. 1932
    Format: Book


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    Rubens, painter and diplomat by Cammaerts, Emile, 1878-1953

    London : Faber and Faber, 1932
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    The devil takes the chair. by Cammaerts, Emile, 1878-1953

    London : The Cresset Press, 1949
    Format: Book


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    Belgium from the Roman invasion to the present day. by Cammaerts, Emile, 1878-1953

    London : T. F. Unwin ltd., 1921
    Format: Book


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    Upon this rock by Cammaerts, Emile, 1878-1953

    London, Cresset Press, 1942
    Format: Book


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    The prisoner at Laeken: King Leopold : legend and fact by Cammaerts, Emile, 1878-1953

    London : Cresset Press, 1941
    Format: Book


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    A history of Belgium from the Roman invasion to the present day. by Cammaerts, Emile, 1878-1953

    London, 1913
    Format: Book


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    Flemish painting by Cammaerts, Emile, 1878-1953

    [London] : Avalon press: and Collins, 1946
    Format: Book


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    Albert of Belgium, defender of right. by Cammaerts, Emile, 1878-1953

    New York : The Macmillan company, 1935
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    The poetry of nonsense. by Cammaerts, Emile, 1878-1953

    London : G. Routledge & sons ltd., 1925
    Format: Book


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    New Belgian poems ; Les trois rois et autres poèmes by Cammaerts, Emile, 1878-1953

    London : New York : John Lane; John Lane Company, 1916
    Format: Book


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    Through the iron bars (two years of German occupation in Belgium). by Cammaerts, Emile, 1878-1953

    London : New York : John Lane; John Lane company, 1917
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    Upon this rock. by Cammaerts, Emile, 1878-1953

    New York ; London : Harper & brothers, 1943
    Format: Book


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    The child of divorce, a novel. by Cammaerts, Emile, 1878-1953

    London : H. Hamilton, 1938
    Format: Book


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    Discoveries in England by Cammaerts, Emile, 1878-1953

    London : G. Routledge & sons, ltd., 1930
    Format: Book


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    Messines and other poems by Cammaerts, Emile, 1878-1953

    London : John Lane, 1918
    Format: Book