Manifesto for Walloon culture

The Manifesto for Walloon Culture (French: Manifeste pour la culture wallonne) was a document published on September 15, 1983, in Liège, Belgium. Signed by 75 prominent figures from the artistic, journalistic, and academic communities of Wallonia, the manifesto aimed to promote Walloon culture and identity.^[2]

^ Maurice Delbouille, the first literary text, possibly written in a Walloon region, or at least in a French Region next to the present-day Wallonia in Maurice Delbouille Romanité d'oïl Les origines : la langue - les plus anciens textes in La Wallonie, le pays et les hommes Tome I (Lettres, arts, culture), La Renaissance du Livre, Bruxelles,1977, pp. 99-107. There are some traits of Walloon, Champennois, and Picard in the Sequence, i.e. three linguistic regions of present-day Wallonia. It is also the opinion of D'Arco Silvio Avalle in Alle origini della letteratura francese: i Giuramenti di Strasburgo e la Sequenza di santa Eulalia, G. Giappichelli, Torino, 1966. and Léopold Genicot wrote: it is in Picard or in Walloon region that the French Literature began with the Sequence of Saint Eulalia in Léopold Genicot (editor) Histoire de la Wallonie, Privat Toulouse, 1973,pp. 124-185, p. 170
^ Dimitrios Karmis and Alain Gagnon, Federalism, federation and collective identities in Canada and Belgium: different routes, similar fragmentation in Alain Gagnon, James Tully (editors) Multinational Democracies, Cambridge University Press, 2001,pp. 137–170, p. 166 ISBN 0-521-80473-6

[1] Maurice Delbouille, the first literary text, possibly written in a Walloon region, or at least in a French Region next to the present-day Wallonia in Maurice Delbouille Romanité d'oïl Les origines : la langue - les plus anciens textes in La Wallonie, le pays et les hommes Tome I (Lettres, arts, culture), La Renaissance du Livre, Bruxelles,1977, pp. 99-107. There are some traits of Walloon, Champennois, and Picard in the Sequence, i.e. three linguistic regions of present-day Wallonia. It is also the opinion of D'Arco Silvio Avalle in Alle origini della letteratura francese: i Giuramenti di Strasburgo e la Sequenza di santa Eulalia, G. Giappichelli, Torino, 1966. and Léopold Genicot wrote: it is in Picard or in Walloon region that the French Literature began with the Sequence of Saint Eulalia in Léopold Genicot (editor) Histoire de la Wallonie, Privat Toulouse, 1973,pp. 124-185, p. 170

[2] Dimitrios Karmis and Alain Gagnon, Federalism, federation and collective identities in Canada and Belgium: different routes, similar fragmentation in Alain Gagnon, James Tully (editors) Multinational Democracies, Cambridge University Press, 2001,pp. 137–170, p. 166 ISBN 0-521-80473-6

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