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[Facts] Re: Baladine
Thanks! Well, I read about a French-Jewish woman called Baladine...
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Wow, that's strange! Is she from the Middle Ages? Because people sometimes had very strange names in France at that time...
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No......she was the mother of the French/Jewish artist Balthus (born Balthazar Klossowski de Rola), and I guess she was born in the 19th century.
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