Editing Paul-Émile Janson (section)

==Biography==
Born in [[Brussels]], Janson was the son of liberal statesman [[Paul Janson]] (died 1913).<ref>Bulletin de la Classe des lettres et des sciences morales 1973 "Paul Janson ne connaissait pas le flamand, ce qui, disait-il, lui causait du regret"</ref> He studied law at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the [[Université libre de Bruxelles]] and the [[Vrije Universiteit Brussel]]), practised as a lawyer, and also taught at the university.

===Political career===
Janson was elected as a liberal to the [[Belgian Chamber of Representatives]] in [[1910 Belgian general election|1910]]. He was not re-elected in [[1912 Belgian general election|1912]], but he was again elected in [[1914 Belgian general election|1914]]. He held various minister posts including War (1920), Justice (1927–1931; 1932–1934; 1939, 1940) and [[minister without portfolio]] (1940–1944). He was made an honorary [[Minister of State (Belgium)|Minister of State]] in 1931.

He served as the [[List of Prime Ministers of Belgium|30th Prime Minister of Belgium]] in 1937–1938. In the early part of the [[Second World War]], Janson served as Foreign minister, and as minister without portfolio, in the government of [[Hubert Pierlot]]. He remained in France when the government in exile moved to [[London]]. In 1943 he was detained by the occupying [[German Army (1935–1945)|German forces]] and incarcerated in [[Buchenwald concentration camp]]. He died there in 1944.<ref>Betty Garfinkels ''Belgique, terre d'accueil: problème du réfugié : 1933–1940'' 1974 "Mieux que tout autre, Paul-Emile Janson mettait en pratique ce qu'il disait. Conciliateur et tolérant, il était aussi le pacificateur du clan Janson qui se réunissait régulièrement dans la propriété de Chooz. Son humour, que tant de personnes appréciaient lors des séances de la Chambre, vida bien des différends entre sœurs et alliés, entre enfants et parents. ll ne lui resta guère de temppour voyager. ... Et cependant, là encore, il réunissait autour de lui ses compagnons d'infortune qu'il réconfortait. Le 3 mars 1944, il s'éteignit dans les bras d'Albert François."</ref><ref>Bulletin de la Classe des lettres et des sciences morales  1973 "Le 27 janvier 1944, en compagnie de Soudan, il était, dans un convoi de wagons à bestiaux, envoyé à Buchenwald. ... Le 3 mars 1944, dans les bras de son compagnon de captivité Albert François, ancien sénateur socialiste, il mourait .."</ref>

His sister [[Marie Janson]] was the first woman to be elected to the Chamber of Representatives in 1921 and the mother of [[Paul-Henri Spaak]], Janson's nephew and the man who directly succeeded him as Prime Minister in 1938.