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Jean-François Vonck
Jean-François Vonck was a Brussels lawyer who led the democratic faction in the Brabant Revolution of 1789 against the Habsburg reforms of Joseph II. His followers, the Vonckists, wanted to broaden political representation beyond the privileged estates, but they were defeated by the conservative Statists of Henri van der Noot and driven into exile in 1790. He died in exile in 1792.
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