🇫🇷 Blue, White and Red 🇫🇷
— Jérémie Robert (@JeremieRobertCG) November 30, 2021
Tonight, we celebrated the Pantheonization of #JosephineBaker by illuminating the @EmpireStateBldg with the colors of the French Flag. Thank you @EvanFourmizz and William Abadie for taking part in the event! pic.twitter.com/mmHOXtX8vC
My father was lucky enough to go and see her in La Revue Nègre for his 16th birthday under the patronage of his parents. Fifty years later, when he told me, his eyes were still sparkly smiling.
Joséphine Baker (1906 - 1975)
Black woman in a world of men
Artist - Showgirl
Resistant
Relentless fighter for civic rights
Loving and caring adoptive mother of twelve
4 comments:
One of a kind. She accomplished a lot and, yet, we still have such a long way to go.
Hope you had a lovely weekend!
On one of my visits to Jerry in New York, before he moved here, we went to Chez Josephine:
"The last of its kind near 42nd Street, Chez Josephine is a neighborhood gem founded in 1986 by Jean-Claude Baker as a tribute to legendary Josephine Baker. This Parisian bistro offers live piano music and a tantalizing menu in an intimate setting of red velvet walls, a cavalcade of chandeliers and a blue-tin ceiling."
(Text from TripAdvisor)
She's brilliant. Fabu. Thank you for sharing this lovely little tribute. Kizzes.
Salut, Voltaire, c'est moi, Josephine
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