L. COURTOIS et C. SAPPIA, Järn och eld. Om den vallonska emigrationen till Sverige, trad. L. HANSÉN, Solna, 2015, 16 p.-27 ill.
(2015) ISBN: [978-2-930479-02-6], 16 pages, published
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- (fr) This volume is the Swedish translation of a booklet published on the occasion of an exhibition organized at the Walloon Parliament of Namur on 19-29 February 2008 and devoted to Wallonian emigration to Sweden in the 17th century (history and memory). In fact, Walloon migrants who leave our country around 1600 to settle in Sweden, are initially specialized craftsmen in the iron trades (coal, hammering, etc.) and recruited mainly by a financier of Liège, Louis de Geer, who then seeks to internationalize his business across Europe. It is also the time when the Swedish krona seeks to enhance its estate and rents out metal facilities for which it wants to improve management. It is in this context that Geer invests in Sweden and where, conscious of the technical know-how of his compatriots, he organizes a movement of labor migration, the only known method at the time to ensure a transfer of technologies! These craftsmen, probably about 2000, settled notably in large complexes of forges (Leufsta, Forsmark, Gimo, etc.), where, relatively isolated from the natives, proud of their origin and, above all, jealous of their technology they sought to preserve, at least partly, their "Walloon" identity. However, for various reasons, Swedish metallurgy continued to use the ancient Walloon method of production until the twentieth century. The Walloon forge communities thus survived until the inter-war period and, with them, the awareness of a heritage, real or supposed, specifically Walloon
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Courtois, L. (2015). L. COURTOIS et C. SAPPIA, Järn och eld. Om den vallonska emigrationen till Sverige, trad. L. HANSÉN, Solna, 2015, 16 p.-27 ill. (SÄLLSKAPET VALLONÄTTLINGAR). SÄLLSKAPET VALLONÄTTLINGAR. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/47339