Josephine Baker is the first black woman added to famed French memorial
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nypost.comfirst reported in le Parisien on Sunday.Her body will remain buried in Monaco, grandson Claude Bouillon-Baker told Agence France-Presse, but a plaque to honor her entry into the mausoleum will be added on November 30.French minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher said in a statement on social media that Baker was “a great lady who loved France.”Baker, born in 1906, rose to notoriety during France’s roaring 1920s and into the ’30s as an erotic dancer, namely her signature Danse Sauvage in which she works a revealing costume stung with beads and painted bananas.
In 1927, she became the first black woman — a title she held in several respects — to star in a major film, “Siren of the Tropics” (“La Sirène des tropiques“).
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