where did the flemish live?
Belgium
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 Many Flemish immigrants arrived in eastern England during the 12th century , and they were persecuted after Henry II became king in 1154 ; a large number of them were killed near Bury St Edmunds in 1173 at the Battle of Fornham fought between Henry II and Robert de Beaumont , 3rd Earl of Leicester . Paul Harris has suggested that the green children 's Flemish parents perished during a period of civil strife and that the children may have come from the village of Fornham St Martin , slightly to the north of Bury St Edmunds , where a settlement of Flemish fullers existed at that time . They may have fled and ultimately wandered to Woolpit . Disoriented , bewildered , and dressed in unfamiliar Flemish clothes , the children would have presented a very strange spectacle to the Woolpit villagers . The children 's colour could be explained by green sickness , the result of a dietary deficiency . Brian Haughton considers Harris 's explanation to be plausible , and the one most widely accepted , although not without its difficulties . For instance , he suggests it is unlikely that an educated local man like Richard de Calne would not have recognised the language spoken by the children as being Flemish . 

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 The loss of this opportunity caused serious discord in the Balzac household , although Honoré was not turned away entirely . Instead , in April 1819 he was allowed to live in the French capital – as English critic George Saintsbury describes it – " in a garret furnished in the most Spartan fashion , with a starvation allowance and an old woman to look after him " , while the rest of the family moved to a house twenty miles [ 32 km ] outside Paris . 

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 Considered together with Marc Sleen the founding father of Flemish comics , he is mainly popular in Belgium , the Netherlands and Germany . Hergé called him " The Brueghel of the comic strip " , while the creation of his own studio and the mass production and commercialization of his work turned him into " the Walt Disney of the Low Countries " . 

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 Throughout the long nineteenth century , as a common destination for political refugees , Belgium was home to important émigré communities , particularly in Brussels . From 1871 , many of the Paris Communards fled to Brussels , where they received political asylum . The far @-@ right politician General Georges Boulanger arrived in 1889 . Other notable exiles living in Belgium included the writer Victor Hugo and the theorist Karl Marx . 

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 Most of the country was liberated by the Allies between September and October 1944 , though areas to the far east of the country remained occupied until early 1945 . In total , approximately 88 @,@ 000 Belgians died during the conflict , a figure representing 1 @.@ 05 percent of the country 's pre @-@ war population , and around 8 percent of the country 's GDP was destroyed . 
