Nobel Peace Prize 1909
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Auguste Marie François Beernaert
Prize share: 1/2
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, Baron de Constant de Rebecque
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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