"I feel a lot of pride and gratitude for those who worked so that Mum
entered the Pantheon
, confides Akio Bouillon, 67, the eldest son of Joséphine Baker.
She herself might not have accepted, because she considered what she was doing was normal.
But she accepted the Legion of Honor, so why not the Pantheon? "
, he wonders.
The family laid down a condition for this tribute:
"Mum will not move from Monaco"
, where the artist was buried in 1975, he says.
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Joséphine Baker, fifty years of an artist's life in Milandes
At the Château des Milandes, in the Dordogne, the announcement of Joséphine Baker's entry to the Pantheon on November 30, provoked bursts of joy.
“I have been fighting for twenty years to tell her story,”
says Angélique de Labarre de Saint-Exupéry, who brings life to the house where the artist lived for thirty years with her 12 adopted children.
“France had forgotten it a little while its history is extraordinary.
She kept saying that even though we don't have the same skin color or
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