Mons is a city and municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
Panorama of the old town
Saint Waltrude Collegiate Church and the Belfry of Mons
Troops of the paramilitary Garde Civique fire on strikers near Mons during the Belgian general strike of 1893 (Le Petit Journal, May 1893)
Canadians entering Mons in 1918
Walloon is a Romance language that is spoken in much of Wallonia and, to a very small extent, in Brussels, Belgium; some villages near Givet, northern France; and a clutch of communities in northeastern Wisconsin, U.S.
Hèsta, the Walloon name of the city of Herstal
An auberge's sign in Crupet
Bilingual French-Walloon street sign in Fosses-la-Ville
The singer William Dunker [wa] (right)