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To: tejek who wrote (341065)	6/23/2007 5:02:46 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571893

Re: Its strange how disbursed the 6 francophone suburbs are. You would think they would all be within close proximity to each other as well as close to Wallonia. That's because the geographical dispersion of Francophone dwellers has nothing to do with politics --unlike the Flemish one.... Until recently, a small Francophone hamlet --Les Fourons-- historically/culturally part of the Province de Liège, had a Francophone majority even though it belonged politically and administratively to Limburg/Flanders.... However, because of about 400 Dutch households (from neighboring Holland) resettled in Les Fourons, native Walloons lost the political majority and the mayorship.... Contrariwise, Francophone (upper-)middle-class households have settled in Vlaams Brabant's posh suburbs because of the lifestyle: it's close to Brussels (where over 100,000 Walloon and 200,000 Flemish commuters go to work) without the nuisances of the country's largest city. Check it out: immoweb.be Re: In truth, isn't this Flemish high handedness payback time for the way the French treated the Flemish prior to WW II? To an extent, it is... but then again, the irony is that French corporations --much bigger and more powerful than their Belgian precursors-- have picked up the Francophone banner where the French-speaking Belgians have left it off: Société Générale de Belgique was gobbled up by the French energy/utilities Suez, Petrofina was acquired by Elf-Aquitaine and is now part of French oil major Total, Belgian retailer GB-Inno-BM was acquired by Carrefour (the world's #2 retailer after Wal-Mart), Mobistar (a cellphone operator) is 50%-owned by France Telecom, ditto with Dexia, Cockerill-Sambre steelworks (now part of Mittal Steel), etc, etc. Gus