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Baker will be just the sixth woman to be honoured in the secular temple to the "great men" of the French Republic, which sits on a hill in Pariss Left Bank.

France’s good and great are interred in this crypt.

Josephine Baker – performer, Resistance hero, and civil rights activist – is the first woman of colour to enter the Panthéon in Paris, w

Josephine Baker – performer, Resistance hero, and civil rights activist – is the first woman of colour to enter the Panthéon in Paris, w

The American-born dancer, singer, actress and civil rights activist Josephine Baker becomes the first Black woman to enter France’s Panthéon mausoleum of revered historical figures on Tuesday, nearly…

Josephine Baker – performer, Resistance hero, and civil rights activist – is the first woman of colour to enter the Panthéon in Paris, w

Josephine Baker – performer, Resistance hero, and civil rights activist – is the first woman of colour to enter the Panthéon in Paris, w

The performer was granted one of Frances highest honors.

Josephine Baker, the famed French American singer and dancer, was inducted on Tuesday into the Pantheon mausoleum in Paris - one of France's highest honours - at a ceremony attended by French President Emmanuel Macron.

PARIS - French-American dancer, singer, Resistance member and rights activist Josephine Baker became the first black woman to enter France's Pantheon mausoleum of outstanding historical figures on Tuesday, nearly half a century after her death.