Nobel Peace Prize 1909

Auguste Beernaert

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Prize share: 1/2

Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant

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Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Peace Prize 1909 was awarded jointly to Auguste Marie François Beernaert and Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, Baron de Constant de Rebecque "for their prominent position in the international movement for peace and arbitration"

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