Photo: Claude Cahun (Public domain), Wikimedia Commons

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French artist (1894–1954)

Also known as: Claude Courlis, Daniel Douglas, Lucy Renée Mathilde Schwob, Lucy Schwob, Клод Каон, كلود كاهون

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