Walloons are a Gallo-Romance ethnic group native to Wallonia and the immediate adjacent regions of Flanders,France,Germany,Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Walloons primarily speak langues d'oïl such as Belgian French,Picard and Walloon. Walloons are primarily Roman Catholic,with a historical minority of Protestantism which dates back to the Reformation era.
The Place de la Concorde is a public square in Paris,France. Measuring 7.6 ha in area,it is the largest square in the French capital. It is located in the city's eighth arrondissement,at the eastern end of the Champs-Élysées.
Wallonia,officially the Walloon Region,is one of the three regions of Belgium—along with Flanders and Brussels. Covering the southern portion of the country,Wallonia is primarily French-speaking. It accounts for 55% of Belgium's territory,but only a third of its population. The Walloon Region and the French Community of Belgium,which is the political entity responsible for matters related mainly to culture and education,are independent concepts,because the French Community of Belgium encompasses both Wallonia and the bilingual Brussels-Capital Region but not the German-speaking Community of Belgium.
Liège is the easternmost province of the Wallonia region of Belgium.
Verviers is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège,Belgium.
The Prince-Bishopric of Liège or Principality of Liège was an Roman Catholic ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire that was situated for the most part in present-day Belgium. It was an Imperial Estate,so the bishop of Liège,as its prince,had a seat and a vote in the Imperial Diet. The Prince-Bishopric of Liège should not be confused with the Diocese of Liège,which was larger and over which the prince-bishop exercised only the usual responsibilities of a bishop.
Heart-burial is a type of burial in which the heart is interred apart from the body. In medieval Europe heart-burial was fairly common among the higher echelons of society,as was the parallel practice of the separate burial of entrails or wider viscera:examples can be traced back to the beginning of the twelfth century. Evisceration was carried out as part of normal embalming practices,and,where a person had died too far from home to make full body transport practical without infection,it was often more convenient for the heart or entrails to be carried home as token representations of the deceased. The motivation subsequently became the opportunity to bury and memorialise an individual in more than one location.
The University of Liège,or ULiège,is a major public university of the French Community of Belgium founded in 1817 and based in Liège,Wallonia,Belgium. Its official language is French.
Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine was a French neoclassical architect,interior decorator,designer and artist.
The Liège Revolution,sometimes known as the Happy Revolution,against the reigning prince-bishop of Liège,started on 18 August 1789 and lasted until the destruction of the Republic of Liège and re-establishment of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège by Austrian forces in 1791. The Liège Revolution was concurrent with the French Revolution and its effects were long-lasting and eventually led to the abolition of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège and its final annexation by French revolutionary forces in 1795.
Rattachism or Reunionism is a political ideology which calls for the French-speaking part of Belgium or Wallonia to secede from Belgium and become part of France. Brussels,which is majority French-speaking but enclaved in Flanders,may be included within this ideology;as may the six Flemish municipalities with language facilities for French-speakers around Brussels. It can be considered a French-speaking equivalent of Grootneerlandisme in Flanders.
Paul Hoornaert was a Belgian far right political activist. Although a pioneer of fascism in the country he was an opponent of German Nazism and,after joining the Belgian Resistance during the German occupation,died in Nazi custody.
The Fountains in Paris originally provided drinking water for city residents,and now are decorative features in the city's squares and parks. Paris has more than two hundred fountains,the oldest dating back to the 16th century. It also has more than one hundred Wallace drinking fountains. Most of the fountains are the property of the municipality.
Pierre-Henri-Hélène-Marie Lebrun-Tondu was a journalist and a French minister,during the French Revolution.
AndréDamseaux was a Belgian politician,second Minister-President of Wallonia and Member of the European Parliament.
Pierre Schwarz is a contemporary Belgian painter and engraver,neo-expressionist and muralist.
Belgium was heavily involved in the early development of railway transport. Belgium was the second country in Europe,after Great Britain,to open a railway and produce locomotives. The first line,between the cities of Brussels and Mechelen opened in 1835. Belgium was the first state in Europe to create a national railway network and the first to possess a nationalised railway system. The network expanded fast as Belgium industrialised,and by the early 20th century was increasingly under state-control. The nationalised railways,under the umbrella organisation National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB),retained their monopoly until liberalisation in the 2000s.
In the history of Belgium,the period from 1789 to 1914,dubbed the "long 19th century" by the historian Eric Hobsbawm,includes the end of Austrian rule and periods of French and Dutch rule over the region,leading to the creation of the first independent Belgian state in 1830.
The Place Rouppe (French) or Rouppeplein (Dutch) is a square in central Brussels,Belgium. It is named in honour of Nicolas-Jean Rouppe,the first mayor of the City of Brussels following the Belgian Revolution of 1830. Rectangular and symmetrical in shape,it is located in the Midi–Lemonnier or Stalingrad Quarter,between the Rue du Midi/Zuidstraat and the Avenue de Stalingrad/Stalingradlaan.
Pierre Emmanuel Félix Chazal was a Belgian military officer,statesman and politician from the Liberal Party who twice served as Minister of War.
