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to attend architectural courses. The following year, he met the architect FĂ©lix Janlet who believed in the young
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Beyaert was of very humble descent. For this reason he had to earn his living from a very young age onwards. Initially he and his family could not afford to finance higher studies. At age 19, Beyaert worked as a bank employee at the
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flavour. In 1876, however, Beyaert publicly denied being a partisan of the nascent
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Beyaert's first public commission was the Head Office of his former employer, the
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