![]() ![]() ![]() Like many black American artists at the time, she moved to France to escape racial segregation back home. Macron will deliver a speech and some of Baker’s relatives will read short texts written by the trailblazing performer.īaker’s name will also soon be added to the name of the Gaîté metro station next to the Bobino theatre in southern Paris, where she last appeared on stage a few days before her death in 1975.īorn Freda Josephine McDonald into extreme poverty in Missouri in 1906, Baker left school at 13.Īfter two failed marriages – she took the name Baker from her second husband – she managed to land herself a place in one of the first all-black musicals on Broadway in 1921. The coffin will be carried into the building by members of the French air force, commemorating her role in the French Resistance during World War II. Louis where she was born Paris, her "second love" the Château de Milandes where she lived in southwest France and Monaco – will be placed in the tomb reserved for her in the Pantheon’s crypt. ![]() The extraordinary life of Josephine Baker © Creative Department - France Médias Mondeīaker is buried in Monaco, where her body will remain.ĭuring Tuesday’s ceremony a coffin containing handfuls of earth from four places where she lived – the US city of St. ![]()
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