Belgium, after all, became an independent state in 1830, precisely in order to liberate the Catholic Flemish, as well as the Walloons, from being second-class subjects in a Protestant Dutch monarchy.
La Belgique est devenue indépendante en 1830, précisément pour que les catholiques flamands et les Wallons ne soient plus des sujets de seconde classe au sein de la monarchie protestante hollandaise.