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WILLEMS, JEAN FRANCOIS (1793-'t846)

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WILLEMS, See also:JEAN See also:FRANCOIS (1793-'t846) , Flemish writer, began See also:life in the See also:office of a See also:notary at Anvers. He devoted his leisure to literature, and in 18ro he gained a See also:prize for See also:poetry with an See also:ode in celebration of the See also:peace of See also:Tilsit. He hailed with See also:enthusiasm the constitution of the See also:kingdom of the See also:Netherlands, and the revival of Flemish literature; and he published a number of spirited and eloquent writings in support of the claims of the native See also:tongue of the Netherlands. His See also:political sympathies were with the See also:Orange party at the revolution of 1830, and these views led him into trouble with the provisional See also:government. Willems, however, was soon recognized as the unquestioned See also:leader of the Flemish popular See also:movement, the See also:chief See also:plank in whose See also:platform he made the See also:complete equality of the See also:languages in the government and the See also:law courts. He died at See also:Ghent in 1846. Among his writings, which were very numerous, the most important were: See also:Les Sciences et les arts (1816), Aux Beiges (1818); Etude sur les origines et l'histoire See also:des temps primitifs de la ville d'Anvers (1828); Melanges de litterature et d'histoire (1829); besides several learned See also:critical See also:editions of old Flemish texts.

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