Villers-Perwin

Villers-Perwin (Walloon: Viyé-Perwin) is a village in Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Les Bons Villers, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.

Only a few enterprises were present: a construction atelier, a woodwork assembly firm and a factory of chicory that lasted until just after World War II.

However, in old French, the P was sometimes replaced by a B, and Perwin would then be Berwin, and Ber means 'bear', which could be referring to the presence of bears in the region when it was covered with forests.

A second possibility for the origin of the word is from Latin, when the village was called Villers-le-Perwin, Villers-le-Pewyn,or Villers-le-Perwez.

[8] The well-known violinist Arthur Grumiaux was born in Villers-Perwin in one of the houses of the Place Commandant Bultot.