Joséphine Baker, generous woman and remarkable artist, made her debut on November 30th among the “
great men
” in the history of France.
She joined "
the unknown woman of the Pantheon
", Sophie Berthelot (who rests there alongside her husband, the chemist and politician Marcellin Berthelot), the physicist Marie Curie, the resistance fighter Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz, the ethnologist Germaine Tillion and the state woman Simone Veil.
Only six women out of a total of eighty-one pantheonized personalities.
For Laurent Kupferman, essayist and initiator of the online petition “
Dare to Josephine in the Pantheon
” - a nod to Alain Bashung's song - which has collected 38,000 signatures, Joséphine Baker is the essential symbol of national unity .
“
We need to come together.
And it embodies this French-style universalism, which is obviously anything but communitarianism and identity withdrawal
, ”he believes.
This pantheonization request has been made by the Baker family since 2013.
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