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Josephine Baker in the Pantheon: A Black Icon of the Last Century

Josephine Baker was an American dancer, Foley Berger's Black Venus, an icon of the "roaring 1920s", De Gaulle's spy, opponent of racial segregation, mother of twelve adopted children of the "Rainbow Tribe". On November 30, in the French Pantheon, she joined the figures who indelibly marked French history - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Pierre, Marie Curie. Josephine Baker is the first black woman to receive such an honor