#15104, Yvonne STOCQUART

Yvonne was a confident, attractive young woman who was descended from an established family of Belgian lawyers.  In the mid eighteenth century her great-grandparents lived in a house on La Grande Place in the centre of Grammont (Geraadsbergen) in central Flanders, whose town square is a mini replica of the Grande Place in Brussels.  Yvonne's father, Arthur, a sophisticated, aristocratic-looking and impeccably dressed man, who at 1.9m tall towered over his friends, had been appointed Professor of Law at Louvain University when he was just twenty-eight.  His opinionated and unconventional behaviour led to many deep arguments with the university authorities which did little to help his career.