Mary-Antoinette Courbebaisse and Claude Cahun: A Legacy of Self-Expression
The Origins: A Tale of Two Women The story of Mary-Antoinette Courbebaisse is deeply intertwined with that of her daughter, the 20th-century artist Claude Cahun, born Lucy Schwob. This tale begins with Lucy’s birth on October 25, 1894, in Nantes, France. Born into a prominent intellectual Jewish family, her father, Maurice Schwob, was a well-known … Read more