The Manifesto for Walloon Culture (Manifeste pour la culture wallonne), was published in Liège on 15 September 1983 and signed ‘by seventy-five key figures in artistic, journalistic and university circles’ of Wallonia.
Among these key figures: Jean-Jacques Andrien, Film Director Maurice Bologne, Professor; Aimée Bologne-Lemaire, Professor; Guy Cabay, Musician; Didier Comès, Comics Artist; Jacques Dubois, Professor at the University of Liège; Francis Édeline, (Groupe µ); Léopold Genicot, Historian; Thierry Haumont, Writer; André Lange (sociologist) European Audiovisual Observatory ;Michel Quévit, Professor at the Université catholique de Louvain; René Hausman, Comics artist; Steve Houben, Musician; Jean-Marie Klinkenberg, Professor at the University of Liège (Groupe µ); Patrick Leboutte Cinema Critic; Jean Louvet, Paul Meyer, Film Director The film director Paul Meyer, that founded the Walloon, cinema: Wip; Thierry Michel, Film Director; Philippe Minguet (Groupe µ); Jacques Nihoul Scientist; Jean-Claude Servais, Comics Artist; Hadelin Trinon (Groupe µ); Yvon Vandycke, Painter; José Verdin, General Federation of Belgian Labour...
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