Message: "Baladine" - Behind the Name

Baladine

by Caprice (guest)

7/12/2004, 4:32 PM

Does anbody know the meaning of this name? It's French, may also have Ladino background.

- Claire (guest) +3

7/12/2004, 6:23 PM

In old French, a "baladine" is the feminine form of a "baladin", meaning a troubadour. But in France it is not a name...

- Caprice (guest) +2

7/13/2004, 7:11 AM

Thanks! Well, I read about a French-Jewish woman called Baladine...

- Claire (guest) +1

7/13/2004, 10:54 AM

Wow, that's strange! Is she from the Middle Ages? Because people sometimes had very strange names in France at that time...

- Caprice (guest)

7/13/2004, 2:02 PM

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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