Louis Remacle (30 September 1910 in La Gleize, Belgium – 10 May 1997) was a linguistics professor at the University of Liège who contributed in particular to the recognition and study of the Walloon language.
[4] Also included in the field of his study were the differences between the dialects across individual areas, which led to his initiating the linguistic atlas of Wallonia (l'Atlas linguistique de la Wallonie), a project begun in 1953 that continued under other editors into the new century.
Following publication locally of Frâdjèlès tchansons (Faint songs, Stavelot 1930), he submitted anonymously the manuscript of Lès fleûrs du l' vôye (Flowers along the way) to the panel of the Prix Biennal de Littérature Wallonne and was awarded the prize in 1933.
[9] Though Remacle was of a melancholy cast of mind who tended to locate his experience of happiness in the past - a traditional enough theme at any period - what he brought to this expression of loss, in addition to the precision of his language, was the introduction of dream images as an alienating device.
But from the basin of my heart time flows, and this I know, when evening and the hour have scoured thin your tocsin, O my voices, then I shall feel shifting about me, as if the slow flakes were drowsing into drifts, the snowfall of silence.