Early discovery of the arts; my father is the poet Alain Cléry (1933-1990);
Bachelor’s degree in history and bachelor’s degree in art history at UCL pursued in concert; community kot with an artistic mission “expo-kot”; Wavre academy (drawing section); beginning of painting; meeting with Marcel Moreau; meeting with the sculptor René Harveng : one also draws with a brush;
from 1984 to 1997 : Teacher at Saint-Luc de Mons; doctoral thesis (1985-) on the Namur architect Roger Bastin;
2005-; lecturer ISA in Tournai, then UCLouvain LOCI (Faculty of architecture, architectural engineering, urban planning);
The notary’s office of Mons under the Anjouin regime (1704-1713). Particularités et fonctionnement, U.C.L., Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres, Département d’Histoire, mémoire de licence, Louvain-La-Neuve, 1985 [unpublished; the conclusions were the subject of two articles in Le notariat en Belgique…and in Anciens Pays et Assemblées d’Etats, see below].
L’habitat à Mons au début du 18ième siècle. Urban structures and construction, U.C.L. Institut Supérieur d’Archéologie et d’Histoire de l’Art, dissertation, Louvain-La-Neuve, 1987 [unpublished].
La collégiale Sainte Waudru, un espace ouvert, in the Cahiers du Cacef, No. 133, 1988, 38-43.
La population de Mons en 1709 (with Claude Bruneel), in the Bulletin du Crédit Communal de Belgique, no. 179, 1992/1, ps. 5-22.
L’habitation individuelle dans l’oeuvre de l’architecte Roger Bastin. Modernity or regionalism?, C.L. , Institut Supérieur d’Archéologie et d’Histoire de l’Art, doctoral thesis, Louvain-La-Neuve, 1997 [currently being edited: November 2023 with Kévin Versailles; a state of the question was published in the Revue des archéologues et historiens d’art de Louvain, tome XXVIII, 1995, ps. 119-122].
Marius Carion, expressionist?, in Marius Carion, painter of the borinage (1898-1949), Brussels, 1998, ps. 17-20.
Hereditary fiefmen and royal notaries in Hainaut under the Anjouin regime (1704-1713): rupture or continuity?, in Le notariat en Belgique du Moyen Âge à nos jours, Brussels , Crédit Communal de Belgique, 1998, ps. 149-153.
