French colors for Josephine Baker (Parc Josephine Baker/FR)
French colors for Josephine Baker (Parc Josephine Baker/France) - josephine Baker, at 30 november 2021 she merged with full honours into the colours of France for eternity. Among "Les Grands Hommes" honoured at the Pantheon Paris, mausoleum of France. Symbol of the French Resistance, symbol for so many people. Now wearing the French colours using the nice logo's found in the Music Hall of Chateau-des-Milandes. Overall a location where you can still see, hear but also feel her vibrant presence.
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Josephine Baker (3 June 1906 - 12 April 1975) - a French-American dancer, singer, actress, civil rights activist, French Resistance member and the world's first black female superstar. For some time, Baker lived with her adopted children, an enormous staff and her fourth husband Jo Bouillon in Château-des-Milandes, enjoyed the estate garden and park along the river Dordogne. For years a luxurious life but she lost the castle in 1968 to unpaid debts. Today it's almost unreal to find at Château-des-Milandes so many authentic traces of her, still visible, just like she's still there.
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Pantheon Paris (mausoleum of France) - after her death she was the only American-born woman to receive full French military honours at her funeral, Baker was interred at Monaco's Cimetière de Monaco. In 2021, nearly half a century after her death, President Emmanuel Macron granted her to be honoured at the Pantheon Paris, mausoleum of France, this in recognition of the fact that Josephine Baker's "whole life was dedicated to the twin quest for liberty and justice ". She's the first black woman who received this highest honour in France, and sixth of woman, now among "Les Grands Hommes" of France. Also the first entertainer immortalized at the Pantheon alongside revered historical figures like Victor Hugo, Emile Zola and Marie Curie.
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Photo July 22, 2015, Josephine Baker (1906) after 109 years in time.
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Château-des-Milandes< (Est. 1489) - former manor mainhouse of the lords of Coumont owners of Chateau Castelnaud-la-Chapelle. The castle is renovated between 1900 and 1914, from 1940 inhabited and owned by Josephine Baker. Nowadays it's a well preserved romantic caste, a monument historique, jardin remarkable, with a brassery, bird show and a unique museum and exhibition dedicated to Josephine Baker.
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
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French colors for Josephine Baker (Parc Josephine Baker/FR)
French colors for Josephine Baker (Parc Josephine Baker/France) - josephine Baker, at 30 november 2021 she merged with full honours into the colours of France for eternity. Among "Les Grands Hommes" honoured at the Pantheon Paris, mausoleum of France. Symbol of the French Resistance, symbol for so many people. Now wearing the French colours using the nice logo's found in the Music Hall of Chateau-des-Milandes. Overall a location where you can still see, hear but also feel her vibrant presence.
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Josephine Baker (3 June 1906 - 12 April 1975) - a French-American dancer, singer, actress, civil rights activist, French Resistance member and the world's first black female superstar. For some time, Baker lived with her adopted children, an enormous staff and her fourth husband Jo Bouillon in Château-des-Milandes, enjoyed the estate garden and park along the river Dordogne. For years a luxurious life but she lost the castle in 1968 to unpaid debts. Today it's almost unreal to find at Château-des-Milandes so many authentic traces of her, still visible, just like she's still there.
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Pantheon Paris (mausoleum of France) - after her death she was the only American-born woman to receive full French military honours at her funeral, Baker was interred at Monaco's Cimetière de Monaco. In 2021, nearly half a century after her death, President Emmanuel Macron granted her to be honoured at the Pantheon Paris, mausoleum of France, this in recognition of the fact that Josephine Baker's "whole life was dedicated to the twin quest for liberty and justice ". She's the first black woman who received this highest honour in France, and sixth of woman, now among "Les Grands Hommes" of France. Also the first entertainer immortalized at the Pantheon alongside revered historical figures like Victor Hugo, Emile Zola and Marie Curie.
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Photo July 22, 2015, Josephine Baker (1906) after 109 years in time.
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Château-des-Milandes< (Est. 1489) - former manor mainhouse of the lords of Coumont owners of Chateau Castelnaud-la-Chapelle. The castle is renovated between 1900 and 1914, from 1940 inhabited and owned by Josephine Baker. Nowadays it's a well preserved romantic caste, a monument historique, jardin remarkable, with a brassery, bird show and a unique museum and exhibition dedicated to Josephine Baker.
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
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