Wallonia (Belgium)

Wallonie

Last modified: 1997-09-03 by filip van laenen
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Filip Van Laenen

• Description of the flag
• Laws concerning the flag
• Name of the flag

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• Belgium (België, Belgique, Belgien)

The flag of the French Community in Belgium is a red cock on a yellow background. It lifts one of his legs, and faces the hoist. The Walloon region, which actually is a part of the French Community, hasn't got a flag.

Filip Van Laenen, 1995-SEP-17

Law of the Walloon assembly of the 16th of March/20th of April 1913. (This assembly is the assembly of the then Walloon movement, not the assembly of a Walloon region or community)

Law of the 20th of July 1975: flag of the French cultural community.The law mentions also a community day.

Law of the 3rd of July 1991 concerning the emblems of the French community (replacing the French cultural community).Here are shown official pictures (b and w) for flag, arms ans seal.Proportions of the flag: 2:3 with specifications concerning the position of the cock in the flag.There is also a standard for the high authorities of the community.It is yellow with the red cock, red and yellow fringed and has the proportions 26:30 (cms).

"Le coq hardi est inscrit dans un cercle non apparent dont le centre coïncide avec celui du tablier, dont le diamètre est égal au guindant et dont la circonférence passe par les extrémités des pennes supérieures et inférieures de la queue et par l'extrémité de la patte levée. L'horizontalité du coq est déterminé par une droite non apparente joignant le sommet de sa crète à l'extrémité de la penne supérieure de la queue." Mark Sensen, 1996-MAY-18

"The bold cock is inscribed in an invisible circle, the center of which is the same as the center of the field, the diameter of which is equal to the hoist and the circumference of which goes thru the tips of the upper and lower feathers of the tail and the tip of the raised foot. The horizontality of the cock is determined by an invisible straight line from the top of the crest to the tip of the upper feather of the tail." Bill Thayer, 1996-MAY-19

The flag of the community flies on the 27th of September (community day) on the public buildings of the French speaking region.It also flies on the official buildings in the same conditions and on the same days as the Belgian national flag.In the bilingual region of Brussels-capital, the flag flies on the 27th of September on the public buildings which exclusively belong to the French community.

There are no laws concerning emblems for the Walloon region, but as the flag flies also in the Walloon region (the territory of the French community is composed of the Walloon region and also of Brussels) and as it was in the past the "Walloon flag", it is also de facto the flag of this region.

Pascal Vagnat, 1996-MAY-17

In Wallonia, the flag is called "le coq hardi".

pascal vagnat, 1995-NOV-29