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• n  an ethnic group speaking a dialect of French and living in southern and eastern Belgium and neighboring parts of France
• n  a member of the French-speaking people living in Belgium
• n  a dialect of French spoken in Belgium and adjacent parts of France

• Walloons
• Walloon

Quotes

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• Paul Belien in New Europe
  Twenty percent of the Walloons are unemployed and 40 percent work for the government. The international community cannot expect the Flemings to continue to finance Wallonia and to mortgage the future of their own children for it,wrote Paul...
• Jules Destree in The Herald
  Flemings and Walloons are opposites, Destree argued: "What excites one, leaves the other stone-cold . . . The Walloon belongs to the Latin civilisation, the Fleming to the Germanic culture. We have in Belgium Walloons and Flemings. There are no...
• Nigel Farage in BBC News
  Accused by fellow panellist Janet Street-Porter of being racist, Mr Farage replied: "Racist towards who? The Flems or the Walloons?"