Follow Joséphine Baker's entrance to the Pantheon live
Joséphine Baker on her arrival in Paris at the time of the first performances of La revue Nègre.
By 1925, she was already a celebrity.
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First black-American star of the music hall in Paris, woman involved in the French resistance during World War II, tireless anti-racist activist and little consensual mother at the head of a rainbow tribe of 12 children, Joséphine Baker never ceased to fight for a certain idea of brotherhood between men, freedom and equality.
This November 30, 46 years after her death, she entered the Pantheon during a ceremony chaired by the Head of State, Emmanuel Macron.
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