Vonckists

Vonckists
Vonckisten
Vonckistes
LeaderJan Frans Vonck
Founded1780s
Banned1790
Preceded byPro aris et focis
Merged intoCommittee of United Belgians and Liégeois
Jacobin Club (mostly Girondins)
IdeologyLiberalism
Progressivism
Republicanism
Belgian nationalism
Factions:
Centralism
Francophilia[1]
Anti-clericalism[2]
Political positionLeft-wing (by contemporary standards)
Political allianceStatists (1789–1790)
Portrait of Jan Frans Vonck, 1791

The Vonckists (Dutch: Vonckisten; French: Vonckistes) or democrats[3] (Dutch: democraten; French: démocrates) were a progressive political faction active in the Austrian Netherlands and later the United Belgian States during the Brabant Revolution (1789–1790). They were led by Jan Frans Vonck and were opposed to the more conservative "Statists", although they did initially ally with them for the sake of liberating the Southern Netherlands.

  1. ^ Howe, Patricia (2008). Foreign Policy and the French Revolution.
  2. ^ Judge, Jane. The United States of Belgium.
  3. ^ Polasky, Janet (2005). The Brabant Revolution, "a Revolution in Historiographical Perception".