“ Willems, however, was soon recognized as the unquestioned leader of the Flemish popular movement, the chief plank in whose platform he made the complete equality of the languages in the government and the law courts. He died at Ghent in 1846.
Among his writings, which were very numerous, the most important were: Les Sciences et les arts (1816) , Aux Belges (1818) ; Étude sur les origines et l'histoire des temps primitifs de la ville d'Anvers (1828) ; Mélanges de littérature et d'histoire (1829) ; besides several learned critical editions of old Flemish texts. ”