The magazine “8:30 p.m. on Saturday“(Twitter), presented live by Laurent Delahousse just after the 20 hours news on France 2, tells about an unprecedented moment in the life of a personality, behind the scenes of an event or a place belonging to the collective history. Reports that reveal “the little story in the big one”, to leaf through like a family album. This new issue of season 4 of “8:30 pm on Saturdays” immerses itself in the story of Josephine Baker and other resistant women who are finally emerging from oblivion.
The day when> Joséphine Baker joins the Resistance
On November 30, 2021, Joséphine Baker becomes the first female artist and the first black woman to enter the Pantheon. Since the French Revolution, the monument honors the memory of the great figures who have marked the history of France: more than 70 men are celebrated there and, so far, only 5 women. Joséphine Baker joins Sophie Berthelot, Marie Curie, Germaine Tillion, Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz and Simone Veil. How did the artist, born in the United States, singer and magazine leader, become a heroine? “8:30 p.m. on Saturdays” tells how Josephine Baker took all the risks for her adopted homeland during World War II …
And also, saved treasures, forgotten women …
News> Rose Valland: the hunt for paintings and the Château de Chambord
Other female characters played a key role during World War II, but they have sometimes been erased by history. Like Rose Valland, this museum curator who nevertheless saved more than 60,000 works of art from the hands of the Nazis. It notably helped to exfiltrate Mona Lisa, from 1939, by sending it to the Château de Chambord! Rose Valland inspires cinema. The film Valiant hearts, with Camille Cottin in the character of Rose, will be released in May 2022. And a new permanent space, Chambord 39-45: Saving a bit of the beauty of the World, has just opened in the castle.
Bonus> The great forgotten ones
Many women have counted throughout the history of France, but history books have seldom recorded them. Journalist Titiou Lecoq reveals some of them…
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– The Memoirs of Joséphine Baker, by Marcel Sauvage (ed. Dilecta).
– Josephine Baker, the universal, by Brian Bouillon-Baker (ed. du Rocher).
– The art market under the Occupation, by Emmanuelle Pollack (ed. Tallandier).
– A resistance fighter saves works of art. Rose Valland, by Mano Gentil (Oskar Editors)
– The Great Forgotten. Why history has erased women, by Titiou Lecoq (ed. of the Iconoclaste).
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