Blaton
50°30′N 03°39′E / 50.500°N 3.650°E
Blaton is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Bernissart located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
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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