Nicholas Margue, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Luxembourgish politician (1888-1976)
Date of Birth: 02-Jan-1888
Place of Birth: Fingig, Canton of Capellen, Luxembourg
Date of Death: 18-Mar-1976
Profession: politician
Nationality: Luxembourg
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Nicholas Margue
- Nicolas Margue (2 January 1888 in Fingig – 18 March 1976 in Luxembourg City) was a Luxembourgish professor and politician in the Christian Social People's Party.
- From 1937 until the German invasion of Luxembourg in 1940, and then again from 1945 to 1948 he was the Minister for Agriculture and Education.
- He was the only minister who did not escape to the border in time on 10 May 1940.
- At 3:30 in the morning he drove in the direction of the Belgian border.
- It was too late, however, and he could not get through.
- As the occupiers saw him as hostile to Germany, his whole family was resettled to Silesia, first to Leubus, then to Boberstein.
- One of his sons, Paul Margue, was drafted into the Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD).
- After the war Nicolas Margue was, together with Jean Feltes, one of the "fathers" of the controversial Official Luxembourgish Orthography.
- From 1945 to 1972 he was the president of the "Section historique" of the "Institut grand-ducal".
- From 1952 he was the Luxembourgish member of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community, where he strongly advocated retaining Luxembourg as seat of the European institutions.
- Margue was also a member of the action committee for a United States of Europe, which had been founded in 1955 by Jean Monnet.
- On 4 August 1959 Nicolas Margue was nominated member of the Council of State, which he remained until his resignation on 30 September 1970.
- Luxembourg City and Clemency named streets after him He was the father of Georges Margue and Paul Margue.
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