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Josephine Baker will enter the Pantheon on Tuesday November 30. Journalist Valérie Astruc, present on site, gives details of the ceremony.
Josephine Baker will enter the Pantheon on Tuesday, November 30, from 5.30 p.m. The ceremony will be chaired by the President of the Republic. Music and emotions will be there. “Much emotion when the cenotaph covered with a tricolor will enter the Pantheon carried by six airmen of the Air Force, of which she was a member”, indicates the journalist Valérie Astruc, present on the scene.
The Pantheon will also take “an air of a theater stage, with the facade adorned with a large red curtain opening onto Josephine Baker dancing the Charleston “, continues the journalist. The artist embodied, recalls Valérie Astruc “hope”, because “rejected by segregationist America but honored by France which knew how to welcome it”.
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