- WILLEMS, JAN FRANS
- Dutch poet and scholar, born near Antwerp; translated "Reynard the Fox" into Flemish, and did much to encourage the Flemings to preserve and cultivate their mother-tongue (1793-1846).
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
WILLEMS, JAN FRANS
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