Location: 40 Rue Pierre-Fontaine, 75009 Paris, Paris.
The Paris home of Joséphine Baker, the legendary American-French entertainer, civil rights activist, and French Resistance agent during WWII. Baker became a sensation at the Folies Bergère and was the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture. She was posthumously inducted into the Panthéon in 2021.
Period recorded for this site: 20th century.
Theme: Military Figure.
Coordinates: 48.88111, 2.33694.
This plaque is a stop on the walk: Americans in Paris: Writers, Artists & Stars.
On Americans in Paris: Writers, Artists & Stars: 40 rue Pierre-Fontaine, the Paris home of Joséphine Baker, the legendary American-French entertainer.
Other plaques within a few minutes' walk: Bal Tabarin, Cancan (17 m); Mário de Sá-Carneiro (50 m); Jean Renoir (79 m); Berthe Weill (79 m); Edmond About, Marthe Gautier (98 m).