Arille Carlier
Arille Carlier (Heap-on-Sambre September 26th, 1887 - Charleroi May 17th, 1963) is a journalist, Belgian lawyer and a Walloon militant.
At this point in time it follows the courses of the Athénée of Charleroi which it starts to write while collaborating in reviews (1902). Doctor in right of ULB (1911), it achieves a training course at Jules Destrée (1911-1914). He carries out a lexicon - remained celebrates - intended to collect the terms used by the workmen of the careers of Écaussinnes. He accompanies Destrée in his engagement in his Walloon combat, founds the Walloon Ligue of Charleroi, the Société of the Friends of Walloon Art, he sits at the Walloon Assemblée when she settles in 1912. During the Great War it publishes the clandestine newspaper autonomous Wallonia (1917). these facts will be worth to him troubles with Justice with the release of the territory.
In 1934, it supports the Abbot Jules Mahieu in his contentions with its ecclesiastical superiors. It is with him in the Walloon Concentration. It also founds the historical Société for the Defense and the Illustration of Wallonia (1938) which will become the Institut Jules Destrée in 1960.
Liberal, Carlier launches out in the adventure of the Walloon Parti independent to the legislative elections of April 1939. He is not elected and the results of the party are very thin. After the exodus of May 1940, it engages in the free resistance movement Wallonia. It is stopped on August 21st 1941 because it diffused with the Law courts of Charleroi of the leaflets with the photograph of the Général De Gaulle carrying the words free Wallonia is at the sides of free France . It remains in prison in Germany until August 1943.
Separatist, specialist as journalist in the national movements, it is with the meetings of the Walloon National congress of 1945 and the following years, the free newspaper Wallonia directs and is member of the Walloon delegation of the Accord Schreurs-Roofer in 1952. He still decides in 1962 for the respect of the popular will in the Fourons, becomes member of the Walloon Popular movement. A more complete biographical note is devoted to him in the Encyclopédie of the Walloon Movement, Charleroi, 2000, volume I, p. 230-232.
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