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The Baker family have been requesting her induction since 2013, with a petition gathering about 38,000 signatures. 'It's a yes!' Macron said after the July meeting, Le Parisien reported. 'When the president said yes, (it was a) great joy,' she said. Jennifer Guesdon, part of a group campaigning for Baker's induction that includes one of the dancer's sons, said they met with Macron on July 21. 'Pantheonisation is built over a long period of time,' an aide to President Emmanuel Macron told AFP on Sunday, confirming a report in the Le Parisien newspaper. Josephine Baker, the famed French-American dancer, singer and actress who fought in the French resistance during WWII and later battled racism, will later this year become the first Black woman to enter France's Pantheon mausoleum.īaker will be just the sixth woman to join the around 80 great national figures of French history in the Pantheon after Simone Veil, a former French minister who survived the Holocaust and fought for abortion rights, entered in 2018.Īlthough American-born Baker's body will remain in Monaco where she is buried, she will be honoured on November 30 with a memorial with a plaque, one of her children, Claude Bouillon-Baker, told AFP.

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