{"id":34098,"date":"2021-08-24T05:30:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T03:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=34098"},"modified":"2021-08-22T23:49:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T21:49:05","slug":"josephine-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/josephine-baker\/","title":{"rendered":"Josephine Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Connaissez-vous<\/a> Josephine Baker?<\/strong>1<\/a><\/sup>Do you know Josephine Baker?<\/em><\/span> Born in 1906 into a poor family in Mississippi, she would grow up to conquer France \u2026 and to help conquer the Nazis. And now this woman of many firsts, is about to conquer one more first.<\/p>\n

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2017 Tim Hildreth<\/p><\/div>\n

Osez Jos\u00e9phine<\/h3>\n

Thanks to the writer Laurent Kupferman<\/a> and his Osez Jos\u00e9phine<\/strong>2<\/a><\/sup>Go ahead\/Be bold\/Dare Josephine<\/em><\/span> petition<\/a>, Josephine Baker will soon become the first femme noire<\/strong>3<\/a><\/sup>Black woman<\/em><\/span> to be enterr\u00e9e<\/strong>4<\/a><\/sup>buried<\/em><\/span> in the Pantheon. The ceremony, planned for November 30th, will see Josephine be the 6th woman<\/a> honored with a place among the greats of France.<\/p>\n

Danseuse et chanteuse<\/strong>5<\/a><\/sup>Dancer and singer<\/em><\/span>, Josephine was also une m\u00e8re de famile, activiste pour les doits civiques aux cotes de Martin Luther King, et membre de la r\u00e9sistance fran\u00e7aise<\/strong><\/a>6<\/a><\/sup>a mother, civil rights activist, and member of the French Resistance<\/em><\/span> who was given the L\u00e9gion d\u2019honneur<\/a> for her efforts on behalf of her adopted country during la Deuxi\u00e8me Guerre Mondiale<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The video below features a later-in-life performance by Josephine of one of her signature songs J\u2019ai deux amours (mon pays et Paris)<\/strong>7<\/a><\/sup>I have two loves (my country and Paris)<\/em><\/span>. This link<\/a> will take you to a short video overview of Josephine\u2019s life from the French social media\/blogging site Brut.<\/p>\n