VIDEO – Joséphine Baker at the Pantheon: why her remains continue to rest in Monaco
While Joséphine Baker’s coffin made its entry into the Pantheon on Tuesday, November 30, one of his sons revealed in Télématin that it was filled with symbolic lands and that his mother would remain buried in Monaco.
46 years after her death, Joséphine Baker is entry to the Pantheon this Tuesday, November 30. In his speech, Emmanuel Macron thanked the princely family of Monaco, represented by Prince Albert. Having major financial worries at the end of his life, the former star of the music hall had been forced to leave his castle in Périgord with his twelve children. And the singer had then been welcomed in Monaco, where she has rested since her death in 1975. And its pantheonization should not change nothing, since according to his son Brian Bouillon-Baker, guest of Telematin on France 2 this Tuesday, November 30, it is a coffin with symbolic lands who entered the Pantheon.
“ The land of his hometown, Saint-Louis (in the United States, editor’s note), it’s important, the land from Paris, of course, the earth of Périgord, Milandes, and the land from Monaco, where she was welcomed, where we have been hosted by Princess Grace at a time when my mother was having serious financial difficulties ”, listed Joséphine Baker’s son against Thomas Sotto who deduced that “ his remains will continue to rest in Monaco “. ” Oh yes “Brian Bouillon-Baker confirmed.
“No way there is a coffin transfer”
“My mother remains in Monaco with her sister, our father from whom she never divorced, they have always remained linked, our brother Moïse who died of cancer. And it is next to the tomb of Princess Grace of Monaco. So, for the family, it’s out of the question that there is a transfer of coffin “, he explained. For him, it is more of a spirit filled with idealism and gaiety that makes its entry into the Pantheon more than a body. “But also some jazz notes …”
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