page_title: Maurice Joostens
hierarchical_section_title: Maurice Joostens
caption_attribution_description: English: Drawing of the Belgian diplomat Maurice Joostens published in the French review La Revue Diplomatique.
context_page_description: Baron Adolphe Marie Maurice Joostens, was a Belgian diplomat. As a signatory of the Boxer Protocol, the final act at the Algeciras Conference and the Colonial Charter in which Congo Free State was ceded to Belgium, Joostens was an important Belgian diplomat in the age of New Imperialism. Throughout his career, Joostens was able to gain the absolute confidence of king Leopold II of Belgium and eventually he became one of the monarch's favourite diplomats.
context_section_description: Baron Adolphe Marie Maurice Joostens  (23 September 1862 – 21 July 1910), was a Belgian diplomat. As a signatory of the Boxer Protocol, the final act at the Algeciras Conference and the Colonial Charter in which Congo Free State was ceded to Belgium, Joostens was an important Belgian diplomat in the age of New Imperialism. Throughout his career, Joostens was able to gain the absolute confidence of king Leopold II of Belgium and eventually he became one of the monarch's favourite diplomats.
caption: Portrait of Joostens published in the French review La Revue Diplomatique in 1904
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