Professor Vincent Dujardin

Historian, professor of contemporary history at UCLouvain and visiting professor at Université de Strasbourg, Vincent Dujardin is the author of highly acclaimed works on the history of 20th-century Belgium, as well as on European integration. Vincent Dujardin has just published, in May 2026, an exceptional biography of Roi Baudouin. This new biography, the result of many years of research, reveals, thanks to unprecedented access to the private notebooks and personal archives of Roi Baudouin, new perspectives on the life and reign of one of the most fascinating and beloved sovereigns of our country. \n \n For our forum, Vincent Dujardin has agreed to share as a premiere this striking portrait of the King, his international influence, his real convictions, his decisive role at certain key moments in our history and that of Congo, as well as the events that marked the world during his forty-two-year reign. On the occasion of this conference, Comte Herman Van Rompuy, former European Président du Conseil and former prime minister, will also discuss Roi Baudouin, whom he personally knew. Vincent Dujardin has chosen as the title of his conference at our forum: "Baudouin, sovereignly free".