{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}} thumb|Xavier Mabille (2009) '''Xavier Mabille''' (3 July 1933 – 24 December 2012)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Décès de Xavier Mabille |url=https://www.lalibre.be/belgique/2012/12/24/deces-de-xavier-mabille-YIHUCJSN7FEPRPAK2TVKQIRUDM/}}</ref> was a Belgian historian and political scientist. He served as President of the Belgium-based ''Centre de recherche et d'information socio-politiques'' (CRISP or Centre for Socio-Political Research) in Brussels.<ref name="Balace" /> In the 1990s, he was a notable political commentator in Belgium.<ref>{{Cite news | title = Le fédéralisme une nouveauté? Un entretien avec Xavier Mabille | newspaper = L'Humanité | language = French | url = https://www.humanite.fr/node/52730 | date = 25 March 1993 | access-date = 14 June 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news | title = La Belgique marquée par les clivages, Mabille: L'Hypothèse d'un éclatement n'est pas à exclure | last = Vanesse | first = Marc | newspaper = Le Soir | language = French | url = http://archives.lesoir.be/la-belgique-marquee-par-les-clivages-mabille-l-hypothes_t-19970707-Z0DYAF.html | date = 7 July 1997 | access-date = 14 June 2010}}</ref> He was born in July 1933 in Anderlecht<ref name="Balace">{{Cite news | title = De l'avant à l'après-guerre, l'extrême droite en Belgique francophone | last = Balace | first = Françis | location = Belgium | page = 5 | language = French | publisher = Centre de recherches et d'études historiques de la seconde guerre mondiale | date = 1994}}</ref> and died in December 2012 at the age of 79.<ref>{{Cite web | title = Décès de Xavier Mabille | publisher = Lalibre.be | url = http://www.lalibre.be/actu/belgique/article/786335/deces-de-xavier-mabille.html | access-date = 27 December 2012}}</ref>
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==External links== * [http://www.crisp.be/ CRISP homepage] (French) * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100709002828/http://www.crisp.be/nav_langue/uk/ CRISP homepage] (UK English)
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