Josephine Baker's life 2
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- She became a French citizen in 1937 after her third marriage to businessman Jean Lion. A black woman of thirty-three, married to a Jew, Josephine Baker was a target for the Nazis. She joined the Red Cross, sang for the soldiers at the front and became a propaganda agent for General de Gaulle.Promoted to second lieutenant in the Air Force in 1942, she received the Resistance medal at the Liberation, and in 1961 the Legion of Honour and the Croix de Guerre.
- To prove that "there is only one human race", she and her new husband, the conductor Jo Bouillon, adopted twelve children of different origins. She called them her "rainbow tribe", and installed them in her castle in the Dordogne, Les Milandes. She transformed Les Milandes into a leisure park. The project was disproportionate, and the poor manager Joséphine Baker was ruined. The estate was sold in 1968 and she was evicted the following year. Princess Grace of Monaco came to her aid by offering her accommodation in Roquebrune.
- She died on 12 April 1975 in Paris. She was 68 years old. After a military tribute and a state funeral at the Madeleine Church in Paris, she was buried in the marine cemetery in Monaco. Then, forty-six years after her death in Paris, Josephine Baker became the first black woman and the first performer to be inducted into the Pantheon on 30 November, the anniversary of her naturalisation in France eighty-four years ago.
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