Joséphine Baker, who enters the Pantheon, obviously does not have the classic profile of the great characters so far honored in the necropolis of the Republic: magazine leader, singer, agent of Free France, international star, fanciful mother at the head of a family she wanted to the dimensions of her heart.
And yet ...
Joséphine Baker at the Pantheon is the consecration of a love story between a woman and a country.
When she was congratulated for her action in the Resistance or for her international prestige which made her the equal of an ambassador, she replied that she was only giving back to France what the latter had given her.
An admirable formula of a little American with big eyes who landed in Montparnasse in the Roaring Twenties and became her darling through her talent and enthusiasm.
"A panther, a lyre bird and the grace of an angel,"
cried Cocteau in love.
She had the name of an empress, Paris made her his queen.
She never ceased to give him thanks.
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