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Josephine Baker
Paris 1925 Over the course of a single evening the Mississippi-born dancer Josephine Baker becomes the darling of the Roaring Twenties Some audience members in the Theatre des Champs-Elysees are scandalised by the African American's performance in La Revue Negre but the city's discerning cultural figures - among them Picasso and Cocteau - are enchanted by her exotic bold and uninhibited style When her adopted country grants her citizenship in 1939 Josephine sees her fame as a means of helping the French resistance She takes advantage of her globe-trotting lifestyle to pass on messages and to gather information Years later she is awarded the Legion d'honneur by Charles de Gaulle In the 1950s installed in a palatial 15th century chateau Josephine adopts 12 children from different ethnic
backgrounds Her "Rainbow Tribe" as she often called them was a living breathing symbol of a happy and harmonious multicultural society In Josephine Baker Catel and Bocquet paint a glorious portrait of a spirited principled and thoroughly modern woman capturing the heady glamour of 1920s Paris in beautifully expressive detail
backgrounds Her "Rainbow Tribe" as she often called them was a living breathing symbol of a happy and harmonious multicultural society In Josephine Baker Catel and Bocquet paint a glorious portrait of a spirited principled and thoroughly modern woman capturing the heady glamour of 1920s Paris in beautifully expressive detail
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