{"id":3715,"date":"2019-07-09T18:55:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T16:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/?p=3715"},"modified":"2023-04-05T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T15:27:00","slug":"masson-arthur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/nos-pistes\/personnalites-belges\/masson-arthur\/","title":{"rendered":"MASSON Arthur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Etienne Arthur Joseph Ghislain MASSON<\/strong>\u00a0was born on 22 February 1896 in Ri\u00e8zes-les Chimay (<b>Ri\u00e8zes<\/b> (in <a title=\"Wallon\" href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wallon\">wallon<\/a> <i>Rieze<\/i>) is a section of the <a title=\"Belgian city\" href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ville_de_Belgique\">Belgian town<\/a> from <a title=\"Chimay\" href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chimay\">Chimay<\/a>. It was a commune in its own right before the <a title=\"Merger of municipalities in Belgium\" href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fusion_de_communes_en_Belgique\">amalgamation of municipalities in 1977<\/a>. Son of MASSON Jules and BAYONNEZ Juliette. The village, situated in the extreme south of the <a title=\"Province of Hainaut\" href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Province_de_Hainaut\">province of Hainaut<\/a>is bordered by the <a title=\"Border between Belgium and France\" href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fronti%C3%A8re_entre_la_Belgique_et_la_France\">French border<\/a>He completed his secondary education at the Coll\u00e8ge \u00e9piscopal in Chimay and at the Catholic University of Louvain. He made his career in teaching (Ath\u00e9n\u00e9e de Nivelles) where he proved to be an excellent French language teacher. He married\u00a0 <b>Anna<\/b>\u00a0<b>FRENAY\u00a0<\/b>3 children were born of this union.\u00a0<strong>Arthur<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>MASSON\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0discovered his vocation as a novelist. He described the lives of ordinary people and villages with humour. As a result, he has been compared to Daudet and Marcel Pagnol. Arthur Masson died in Namur on 28 July 1970 at the age of 74. He left behind a body of work that has been passed down through the generations and continues to be published.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3724\" style=\"width: 477px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3724\" class=\"wp-image-3724 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/masson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"254\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/masson.jpg 467w, https:\/\/geniwal.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/masson-300x163.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 467px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 467\/254;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3724\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1940-1941: the teaching staff of the Ath\u00e9n\u00e9e. Arthur Masson is in the centre.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3726\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3726\" class=\"wp-image-3726 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/MASSON_001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"694\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/MASSON_001.jpg 912w, https:\/\/geniwal.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/MASSON_001-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/geniwal.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/MASSON_001-600x520.jpg 600w, https:\/\/geniwal.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/MASSON_001-768x666.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 800px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 800\/694;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3726\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Birth certificate for Etienne Arthur Joseph Ghislain MASSON<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Source<\/strong> :<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arthur_Masson\">https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arthur_Masson<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espacemasson.be\/pr%C3%A9sentation\/arthur-masson\/\">https:\/\/www.espacemasson.be\/pr%C3%A9sentation\/arthur-masson\/<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/octavesanspoux.jimdo.com\/arthur-masson\/\">https:\/\/octavesanspoux.jimdo.com\/arthur-masson\/<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Journal Avenir of Monday 8 July 2019: Fabulous destiny of the Walloon Brabants<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Background biography :<br \/>\n<\/strong>G\u00e9niwal does not seek to retrace the complete biography of this character, which would duplicate the work of a multitude of other sites that are much more detailed and precise, and which anyone can easily consult. We limit ourselves here to giving a brief chronological and geographical overview.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Etienne Arthur Joseph Ghislain MASSON\u00a0est n\u00e9 le 22 f\u00e9vrier 1896 \u00e0 Ri\u00e8zes-les Chimay (Ri\u00e8zes (en wallon Rieze) est une section de la ville belge de Chimay. C&rsquo;\u00e9tait une commune \u00e0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nos-pistes","category-personnalites-belges","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}