Ring Walloon students of the ULB

The Cercle of the Walloon students of the ULB was founded in 1894. In the years 1897-1898, he protests against the law Coremans-In Vriendt. The Circle then seems to disappear. It reappears in 1907 and is caught some with the wishes expressed by the students of the Université of Ghent to see their flamandized university. Within the Circle Richard Dupierreux creates a Circle of regionalistic studies. The war again plunges it in the inactivity. It inaugurates its flag in the presence of the authorities of the ULB and the communal authorities of Brussels and ravels Town square with the Colonne of the Congress, then towards Laeken with the monument of the Hairy unknown, where the deputy of Soignies, Rene Branquart speaks. The Circle reappears in 1933 pennies the impulse of Luc Javaux.

At the time the student's opinion is strongly sensitized with the cause of the republican Spain and the Circle engages with the other students in this direction. It adheres to the Walloon Concentration and takes part from 1937 in the pilgrimages in Waterloo. The Circle organizes conferences where are in particular invited François Bovesse, the abbot Jules Mahieu, Fernand Dehousse. From 1939 the Walloon students of the ULB express against the policy of neutrality, distribiuant leaflets with the population, singing the Marseillaise in the streets. It launches out then also in the participation in French associations of between assistance, the war having been declared by France in Germany. The most active students are Rene Drèze and Valère Passelecq. The Circle engages then in Resistance and the Groupe Hotton. Several members pay it of their life like Valère Passelecq or Robert Thonon, without counting Luc Javaux.

With the Release the Circle knows a renewal of activity, founds a body the Sentinel , polemic with the Flemish tudiants of Geen Taal, geen Vrijheid which they invite besides to be expressed in their columns and that vis-a-vis the linguisdtic question of the unfolding of the courses. The Circle again knows a period of lethargy then a new renewal of activity with the royal Question and the arrival of Jacques Hoyaux. The Circle will then form part of the Standing Committee of the Walloon National congress and adopts the federalism. It enters then in conflict with the Fédération of the regional circles of the ULB which will be promised with a bright future while the Circle saw its last moments of existence. Encyclopedia of the Walloon Movement, Volume I; pp. 239-240.