Joséphine Baker will enter the Pantheon on November 30

The Franco-American artist Joséphine Baker (1906-1975), a prominent figure in the Resistance and the anti-racist struggle, will be pantheonized on November 30, according to information from the Sunday edition of the

citing President Emmanuel Macron.

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", Said the Head of State on Wednesday July 21 at the Elysee Palace, according to the daily, after an interview with a group of personalities who came to plead for this initiative, including"

”.

First pantheonized black woman

The ceremony will take place on November 30, according to

, making the famous magazine leader, born in Missouri and buried in Monaco, the first black woman to rest in the secular necropolis.

The file in favor of the interpreter of the famous song "

" had been examined for the first time at the end of June by the Elysee, according to Le Parisien. A petition in favor of the pantheonization of the artist, launched two years ago by Laurent Kupferman, had gathered 38,000 signatures.

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”, argues the text.

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For more than a century, the Pantheon has been the secular necropolis of French “

”, whose

memory “

” wishes to honor.

This imposing building dominates the Sainte-Geneviève mountain, one of the hillocks of Paris, in the center of the capital.

Among the 80 "

" are politicians, writers, scientists, some religious and many military.

Only five women are currently buried there, including Simone Veil, the last personality to have been, in 2018.

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