Limburg en de Nederlandsche Taalen Letterkundige Congressen: Bijdragen uit de periferie 1849-1912

In 1839 Belgium and the Netherlands were definitively separated from each other. Part of the arrangement was that Limburg east of the Meuse was separated from Belgium and, together with the fortress Maastricht, joined to the Netherlands as the Dutch province of Limburg (from here on in this article the name ‘Limburg’ always refers to the Dutch province Limburg, and not the Belgian province of the same name). As a result of these separations, the language situation changed both in Flanders and in Limburg. In Flanders, the French language, which was already frequently used by the upper classes,... Mehr ...