Henri La Fontaine's Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs

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Henri La Fontaine (22 April 1854 – 14 May 1943), was a Belgian international lawyer and president of the International Peace Bureau. The birth-card coordinate for April 22 is the Queen of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1913 Peace prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1913 The Nobel Peace Prize — for his unparalleled contribution to the organization of peaceful internationalism

The Queen of Clubs coordinate

Henri La Fontaine's birthday maps to the Queen of Clubs (The Nurturing Leader). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Henri La Fontaine. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You teach from what you actually know, without making people earn the right to hear it.

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Henri La Fontaine in the public record

He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1913 because "he was the effective leader of the peace movement in Europe." La Fontaine was born in Brussels on 22 April 1854 and studied law at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel). He was admitted to the bar in 1877 and established a reputation as an authority on international law. He and his sister Léonie La Fontaine were early advocates for women's rights and suffrage, founding in 1890 the Belgian League for the Rights of Women. In 1893, he became professor of international law at the Free University of Brussels and two years later was elected to the Belgian Senate as a member of the Socialist Party. He served as vice chairman of the Senate from 1919 to 1932. La Fontaine took an early interest in the International Peace Bureau, founded in 1882, and was influential in the Bureau's efforts to bring about The Hague Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907. He served as president of the Bureau from 1907 until his death in 1943. World War I convinced La Fontaine that the world would establish an international court when peace returned.

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Where the record meets the Queen of Clubs

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Henri La Fontaine (22 April 1854 – 14 May 1943), was a Belgian international lawyer and president of the International Peace Bureau.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: lawyer.

Also on the record

1. He proposed a number of possible members, including Joseph Hodges Choate, Elihu Root, Charles William Eliot, and Andrew Dickson White.
2. La Fontaine also promoted the idea of unification of the world's pacifist organizations.
3. He was a member of the Belgian delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 and to the League of Nations Assembly (1920–21).
4. In other efforts to foster world peace, he founded the Centre Intellectuel Mondial (later merged into the League of Nations Institute for Intellectual Co-operation) and proposed such organizations as a world school and university, and a world parliament.

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FAQ

What is Henri La Fontaine's birth card?

The Queen of Clubs. April 22 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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