Editing Francization (section)

====Brussels and the Flemish periphery====
{{Main|Frenchification of Brussels}}

In the last two centuries, [[Brussels]] transformed from an exclusively [[Dutch language|Dutch]]-speaking city to a bilingual city with French as the majority language and [[lingua franca]]. The language shift began in the eighteenth century and accelerated as [[Belgium]] became [[Belgian revolution|independent]] and Brussels expanded beyond its original city boundaries.<ref name="service">[http://www2.cfwb.be/franca/services/pg027.htm] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070105023238/http://www2.cfwb.be/franca/services/pg027.htm|date=5 January 2007}}</ref><ref name="laval">{{cite web|url=https://www.ulaval.ca/afi/colloques/colloque2001/actes/textes/tourret.htm |title=Université Laval: Accueil |publisher=Ulaval.ca |access-date=2015-05-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619145722/http://www.ulaval.ca/afi/colloques/colloque2001/actes/textes/tourret.htm |archive-date=19 June 2009}}</ref> From 1880 onwards, more and more Dutch-speaking people became bilingual, resulting in a rise of monolingual French speakers after 1910. Halfway through the twentieth century, the number of monolingual French-speakers carried the day over the (mostly) bilingual Flemish inhabitants.<ref name="brio4">{{in lang|nl}} [http://www.briobrussel.be/assets/andere%20publicaties/btng-rbhc,%2021,%201990,%203-4,%20pp%20383-412.pdf "Thuis in gescheiden werelden" — De migratoire en sociale aspecten van verfransing te Brussel in het midden van de 19e eeuw"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181015023229/http://www.briobrussel.be/assets/andere%20publicaties/btng-rbhc,%2021,%201990,%203-4,%20pp%20383-412.pdf |date=15 October 2018 }}, [[BTNG-RBHC]], XXI, 1990, 3-4, pp. 383-412, Machteld de Metsenaere, Eerst aanwezend assistent en docent Vrije Universiteit Brussel</ref> Only since the 1960s, after the fixation of the Belgian [[Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium|language border]] and the socio-economic development of Flanders was in full effect, could Dutch stem the tide of increasing French use.<ref name="dbnl">{{cite web|language=nl |url=http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_han001197301_01/_han001197301_01_0009.htm |title=De historische kracht van de Vlaamse beweging in België: de doelstellingen van gister, de verwezenlijkingen vandaag en de culturele aspiraties voor morgen |author=J. Fleerackers, Chief of staff of the Belgian Minister for Dutch culture and Flemish affairs |year=1973 |work=Digitale bibliotheek voor Nederlandse Letteren}}</ref> The francization of the [[Brussels Periphery|Flemish periphery around Brussels]] still continues because of the continued immigration of French speakers coming from Wallonia and Brussels.