Eugène Edouard César Gaëtan Soudan (4 December 1880 – 30 November 1960) was a lawyer, jurist and politician.
[citation needed] He was born into a liberal bourgeois family in the city of Ronse.
He did his primary education in his hometown, he then makes his secondary studies at the Royal Grammar School in Tournai and that of Ghent.
He began a career as a lawyer in Brussels with in the office of Charles Dejongh, one of the most eminent jurists of the country at the time.
[1] During the first world war, Soudan served as delegate of the interdepartmental commission of supplies.