Blaton

Coordinates: 50°30′N 03°39′E / 50.500°N 3.650°E / 50.500; 3.650

A view of Blaton

Blaton is a section of the Belgian municipality of Bernissart. It is located in Wallonia in the province of Hainaut. It was formerly a separate municipality until it merged in 1977.

Notable residents

  • Victor Martin, a Belgian Resistance member and academic sociologist who was sent to report on allegations of mass-murder of Jews in Poland for the resistance in 1943.
  • Luce Irigaray, a feminist philosopher and linguist who was born in Blaton in 1930.

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