Jan-Baptist Verlooy
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Jan-Baptist Chrysostomus Verlooy was a jurist and politician from the Austrian Netherlands who played an important role in the Brabant Revolution.
First page of the Essay on the disregard of the native language in the Netherlands (1788) by Jan-Baptist Verlooy
Pro aris et focis
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Pro aris et focis and Pro Deo et patria are two Latin phrases used as the motto of many families, military regiments and educational institutions. Pro aris et focis literally translates "for altars an
Formal end of the "orange" military Civic guard in Haarlem, and start of a new "Patriotic people's militia" called "Pro Aris et Focis" (1787)