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Josephine Baker — Revue star, Resistance agent, Panthéon inductee, 1906–1975
The American who electrified Paris at nineteen in the 1925 Revue nègre, charleston and danse sauvage — then a Free French agent, civil-rights activist, mother of a “rainbow tribe”. In 2021 she entered the Panthéon, the first Black woman to be honoured there. (Editorial synthesis)
Josephine Baker was born on 3 June 1906. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Josephine Baker was born in St. Louis (Missouri). (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Josephine Baker died on 12 April 1975. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Josephine Baker died in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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