Vonckists

The Vonckists (Dutch: Vonckisten) were a political faction during the Brabant Revolution led by Jan Frans Vonck, opposed to the more conservative "Statists".

Portrait of Jan Frans Vonck, 1791

History

The group emerged from the secret society Pro aris et focis in the 1780s, and by 1789 had become a distinct faction.[1] The Vonckists called for a popular government along the model seen during the French Revolution. After the proclamation of the United Belgian States in January 1790, the Vonckists were denounced as anticlerical by the Statists and many were hunted down by mobs in what was known as the "Summer Terror".[1] Jan Frans Vonck was forced into exile in France.[1]

gollark: I see. very mysterious.
gollark: Why what?
gollark: Basically that.
gollark: I don't see why you would need any hardware for this.
gollark: Using an existing custom ROM thing is very easy, compiling Android yourself is hard and extremely slow because Android is horribly designed, porting postmarketOS is probably harder but at least not glacially slow.

References
  1. Pappas, Dale. "Belgium from Revolution to the War of the Sixth Coalition 1789-1814". www.napoleon-series.org. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.