Joséphine Baker
(1906-1975)
Born in Saint Louis, Missouri, Josephine Baker made her French debut in 1925, when La Revue Nègre triumphed at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées. She was nicknamed : La Vénus d'Ebène embodied and remained the emancipated woman of the Roaring Twenties. In August 1931, to promote : Paris qui Remue, the new revue presented by the Casino de Paris during the Colonial Exhibition, Joséphine Baker went to Deauville. She took to the stage holding Chiquita, a young female cheetah, who shared the stage with her. After successively establishing herself as a great resistance fighter, a kind-hearted woman who had adopted twelve children, and an active campaigner for the black cause, Joséphine Baker sang at the Casino on August 31, 1953, and returned to the Salon des Ambassadeurs stage on December 31, 1971, to sing one last time at the Casino de Deauville.
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