Lil Picard Lil Picard Lil Picard, (born Lilli Elisabeth Benedick October 4, 1899 – May 10, 1994) was a cabaret actress, artist and critic born in Landau, Germany in 1899, who took part in several generations of Counterculture and Avant-garde art in Berlin and in New York City. Lil Picard was born Lilli Elisabeth Benedick October 4, 1899 in Landau, Germany. She was the only child of Jakob, a wine producer and merchant, and Rosalie Benedick. She spent her childhood and adolescence in Strasbourg, Germany, which is now in France. Seeking solace from her parents, Lil found meaning in books. Westermann's "Monashefte"
Picard language Douai, and northeast Artois around Béthune and Lens). It is also named rouchi around Valenciennes; or simply as patois by Northerners in general. Linguists group all of them under the name "Picard". In general, the variety spoken in Picardy is understood by speakers in Nord-Pas-de-Calais and vice versa. Today, Picard is usually classified as merely a dialect of French as spoken in France by French linguists, rather than as a standalone language or distinct dialect in its own right, primarily due to French's heavy influence over the centuries when both French (Francien dialect) and Picard were developing from a common