Johan Valckenaer
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Johan Valckenaer was a Dutch professor who specialized in Roman law. He was a passionate and combative patriot who promoted the right to bear weapons. In 1787 he went in exile in France and in 1793 he
Physionotrace of Johan Valckenaer by Edme Quenedey des Ricets
Flee of patriots from Franeker, 1787
Johan Valckenaer.
Meer en Bosch near Heemstede, lithography.
Wybo Fijnje
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Wybo Fijnje was a Dutch Mennonite minister, publisher in Delft, Patriot, exile, coup perpetrator, politician and - during the Batavian Republic and Kingdom of Holland - manager of the predecessor of t
Johan Valckenaer
…patriots fled in the first place to Amsterdam, then to Brussels and Saint-Omer in northwest France. The leaders of the Patriots, such as Valckenaer, Wybo Fijnje, H. W. Daendels, and Adam Gerard Mappa lived temporarily in a castle in Watten and formed a kind of commune, that jointly bought a billiards set…
Wybo Fijnje; portrait attributed to Taco Scheltema