Josephine Baker, spy (France, years, government, monument)

[Cida]

So, along with Julia Child...

Interesting article - and I love the photograph.


Josephine Baker Was the Star France Wanted—and the Spy It Needed
When the night-club sensation became a Resistance agent, the Nazis never realized what she was hiding in the spotlight.
Last November, Baker was inducted into the French Panthéon, the first woman of color to grace the hallowed monument, among such figures as Victor Hugo and Marie Curie.
Baker maintained a code of silence about the seven years she spent fighting the Nazis and, Lewis writes, “went to her grave in 1975 taking many of those secrets with her.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...gent-josephine

[kovert]

Was she also spying for her buddy Peron?

The Crisis Jan 1953, p. 40.

[Cida]

I'm afraid you'll have to read the book for that.

[kovert]

Originally Posted by Cida

I'm afraid you'll have to read the book for that.

Does it mention what, if any, connection that Baker might have had with the creole francois de couleur Eboue?

The Crisis Mar 1943, p.71.

The Crisis Jan 1945, p.29.

The Crisis Mar 1945, p.83.

[Cida]

Originally Posted by kovert

Does it mention what, if any, connection that Baker might have had with the creole francois de couleur Eboue?

See my reply, above.

[Jezer]

One very brave lady. Her chateau is not far from where we live.

I was pleased that she was interned in Les Invalides.