| By 1624, some thirty families, Protestant Walloons, established the first European settlement, New Amsterdam. |
| The Walloons, who live in Belgium's southern provinces, are the country's French-speaking inhabitants. |
| We were told not to speak too much at all, as you may upset the French, or the Flemish, or the Walloons, or the Dutch, or the organisers. |
| Belgium was founded 175 years ago, when the Walloons and the Flemish decided to forge a common national identity. |
| The languages of both the Flemings and the Walloons have formal and informal modes of addressing another person. |
| The Frenchspeakers, or Walloons, know it is not their own, and the Dutch-speaking Flemish cannot warm to it. |
