Jacques Ledoux
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Jacques Ledoux (1921 – 6 June 1988) was a Polish-born Belgian cinema specialist, the first curator of the Royal Film Archive of Belgium (Cinémathèque royale de Belgique) from 1948 to 1988{{Cite web|title=About us - CINEMATEK|url=https://www.cinematek.be/en/about-us|access-date=2022-01-17|website=www.cinematek.be}} and the founder of the Cinema Museum in Brussels (Musée du cinéma de Bruxelles) in 1962.{{Cite journal|last=Thompson|first=Kristin|last2=Bordwell|first2=David|date=1989|title=Jacques Ledoux: 1921-88|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1224855|journal=Cinema Journal|volume=28|issue=3|pages=4–7|issn=0009-7101}} He was born in Warsaw and died in Brussels.
Awards and honors
Ledoux received the Erasmus Prize, a Dutch award for contributions to art in 1988.{{Cite web|title=Erasmusprijswinnaars|url=https://erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates/jacques-ledoux/|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Praemium Erasmianum Foundation|language=en-US}}
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External links
- "[https://web.archive.org/web/20110706133539/http://www.cinergie.be/cinergie/revue0/ledoux.html Cinémathèque, son doux souci]" (interview), Cinergie, vol. 0, 1993. {{in lang|fr}}
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Category:Polish emigrants to Belgium
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