Walloons in the Netherlands

The history and presence of the Walloon people, i.e. francophone Belgians, in the Netherlands goes back to the foundation process of the Dutch state. Even more so, the region now known as Wallonia was part of the historical Southern Netherlands, a region now divided between the Netherlands, Belgium and the French Nord-Pas-de-Calais.

Not to be confused with Huguenots in the Netherlands denoting French Protestant immigrants to the Netherlands..
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