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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Walloon movement activists, Jules Bordet, History of the Walloon Movement, General strike against Leopold III of Belgium, Georges Lemaitre, 1960-1961 Winter General Strike, Manifesto for Walloon culture, Belgian general strikes, Jules Destree, Renardism, Leopold Genicot, Jacques Leclercq, Jean Gol, Aimee Bologne-Lemaire, Jean-Marie Klinkenberg, Jean-Maurice Dehousse, Jacques Dubois, Andre Renard, Julien Lahaut, Andre Cools, Bernard Anselme, Fernand Dehousse, Guy Spitaels, General Federation of Belgian Labour, Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe, Jean Louvet, Emile Digneffe, Jean Defraigne, Marcel Florkin, Fernand Verhaegen, Wallonie Libre, Leo Collard, Maurice Destenay, Charles Magnette, Rassemblement Wallonie France, Philippe Monfils, Marcel Thiry, Pierre Paulus, Albert Mockel, Jean-Claude Marcourt, Charles Plisnier, Emile Coulonvaux, Zenon Bacq, Paul Pastur, Jean Duvieusart, Milou Jeunehomme, Jean Leclercq, Michel Foret, Marie Delcourt, Louis Remacle, Jacques Nihoul, Marc Wilmet, Robert Vivier, Rattachism. Excerpt: The Walloon Movement traces its ancestry to 1856 when literary and folkloric movements based around the Society of Walloon Literature of Liege began forming. Despite the formation of the Society of Walloon Literature, it was not until around 1880 that a "Walloon and French-speaking defense movement" appeared, following the linguistic laws of the 1870s. The movement asserted the existence of Wallonia and a Walloon identity while maintaining the defense of the French language. During French control of the Low Countries, linguistic problems arose with the first language laws. After the invasion of the Austrian Netherlands, French revolutionaries began the "francisation" of the country. Under the Old Regime French coexisted with many languages, including Latin and English, but the decree of 2nd Thermidor Year II m...
