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The article says "in their native French"; however more likely their native language (that has been transmitted until today) was the Walloon language.
Is there some verifiable fact that the crowd has been addressed in French (that for Walloon speaker would more or less understand even not speaking it) ?
More probably (in particular if the one addressing them was indeed a "comapatriot" and not a Frenchman) it should have been Walloon language (which is related to French, the same as English is related to Scots; but nevertheless they are different)
The fact that the immigrants spoke Walloon is a documented fact; verifiable even as people there still spoke it (while not knowing French at all).
