[3] Through the legal proceedings that followed in 1889, information emerged that most of the PSR leadership were in fact agent provocateurs on the government's payroll.
[1] The events of le Grand Complot were reenacted in a 1990 theatre play by the same name by Jean Louvet.
[5] The party began publishing La Bataille in 1889, its publication continued until 1891 (as a Republican Socialist weekly).
[6] At the time of the centenary of the French Revolution of 1789, PSR merged back into the Belgian Labour Party.
The PSR, albeit short-lived, represented the sole effort to build a structured republican political organization in Belgium.