Talk:War of Devolution

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Dans un document familial datant de 1854, un de mes aïeux fait état de ce que son arrière-arrière grand-père est venu s'établir à St Léger ( dans le Tournaisis, ouest de l'actuelle province du Hainaut ) " à l'occasion des guerres de Louis XIV "... Cela me permet d'estimer que le souvenir de la guerre de Dévolution était encore assez vivace dans cette région du pays à presque deux siècles de distance. Il serait intéressant de savoir si des mouvements de population étaient d'usage courant dans les territoires conquis. Le village de St Léger n'est pas resté en possession de la France, au contraire de ce qui est dénommé actuellement la "Flandre Française" = (Lille, Dunkerke, Amiens..)

Generally there wasn't much planned colonising. It should be remembered that the notion, such as it existed, of a French people, had then very little to do with what language was spoken. Of course individuals took advantage of opportunities offered. In war people die and were replaced by others. At the time there was a lot of individual migration in Europe. Of course your ancestor might have been a highranking French official, sent to gouvern :o). --MWAK 09:49, 6 June 2006 (UTC)