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Lieutenant André Emile Alphonse De Meulemeester was a Belgian flying ace during World War I. He was credited with eleven confirmed and nineteen unconfirmed aerial victories.〔http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/belgium/de_meulemeester.php Retrieved on 29 March 2010.〕 ==Family== André De Meulemeester was the son of brewer Victor De Meulemeester (1866–1927), who from 1919 until his death was a senator for the Belgian Labour Party. He was the grandson of brewer Leon De Meulemeester (1841–1922) and Virginie Verstraete. He married in 1925 with Cécile Graux, granddaughter of Charles Graux, Belgian minister of finances (1878–1884) and the daughter of Charles II Graux, secretary to queen Elisabeth of Belgium. Her sister, Marie-Hélène Graux (1901–1955), married Ernest-John Solvay (1895–1972), son of Ernest Solvay. The couple lived in a splendid rococo-house along one of the canals in Bruges. They let it often be the scene for motion pictures, amongst them ''L'empreinte du dieu'' taken from a novel by Maxence Van Der Meersch and ''The Nun's Story'', with Audrey Hepburn and Peggy Ashcroft. The De Meulemeesters founded in the sixties a non-profit organization for children in need. When André died in 1973 only local newspapers echoed his discreet departure. On the 9th of August 1973 the Festival of Ancient Music dedicated one of its concerts to this generous sponsor (it was a recital at the town hall, given by the British artists Nigel Rogers and Colin Tilney. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「André de Meulemeester」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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