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2 unusual facts about French Flanders


French Flanders

#Lilloise Flanders (French: La Flandre Lilloise; Dutch: Rijsels-Vlaanderen), historically also called Walloon Flanders, to the southeast, south of the Lys and now the arrondissements of Lille and Douai

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The traditional language of Lilloise Flanders (part of Romance Flanders), is Picard (and its dialects, such as Ch'ti or Rouchi).


Giles de Coninck

Giles de Coninck (Aegidius; also called Regius) (b. 20 December 1571, at Bailleul in French Flanders; d. 31 May 1633, at Leuven) was a Flemish Jesuit theologian.

Manneken Pis

Similar statues can also be found in the Belgian cities of Koksijde, Hasselt, Ghent, Bruges, in the town of Braine-l'Alleud (where it is called "Il Gamin Quipiche"), and in the French Flemish village of Broxeele, a town with the same etymology as Brussels.


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Wybo Fijnje

The Fijnje family went to Antwerp, later to Brussels and finally to Watten (French-Flanders).