There are three literary traditions in the area now called Belgium: Flemish, French, and Walloon. For the Flemish tradition see Flemish literature. The French includes the 12th-century novella Aucassin et Nicolette, the literature associated with the 15th-century Burgundian court, 19th-century naturalists, esthetes, and Symbolists (notably Emile Verhaeren (1855–1916)), and internationally known writers as different as the dramatist Maurice Maeterlinck and the crime novelist Georges Simenon. Local dialects of Latin and French in the Walloon provinces gave rise to a distinctive vernacular literature, mainly poetic and dramatic, dating back to the 12th century but centered on Ličge from the 17th century.