Boulanger Expo in Toulouse – ladepeche.fr
The Departmental Museum of Resistance & Deportation is hosting the exhibition “Joséphine, a life of commitments”.
It highlights the complex personality of Josephine Baker (1906-1975). Dancer, singer, magazine leader, film actress, committed woman, resistance fighter, mother… Joséphine Baker was all of these at the same time. Yet nothing destined this poor mestizo, born in the black neighborhood of Saint-Louis, Missouri, on June 3, 1906, to the light of the scene. An icon of modernity in the 1930s, Joséphine Baker inspired many artists, as evidenced by the sketches by Corbusier, Henri Laurens and Paul Colin, presented at the Toulouse museum. This exhibition evokes other facets of the artist, highlighting his commitment from the start of the Second World War, with the soldiers mobilized on the front. Unexpected excerpts from his correspondence with General de Gaulle are to be discovered on this occasion. How can we mention Joséphine Bayer without mentioning the Château des Milandes in the Dordogne, where she settled in 1940 and founded her “Rainbow Tribe” which campaigns for equality and peace between peoples.