Hemingway called her “the most sensational woman anybody ever saw.” If you read any well-informed account of the life of le tout Paris between the wars, you’ll almost certainly run across her name.

Designed by French architect Louis Gilbert in the 1890s, the 12-bedroom villa—dubbed Le Beau Chêne—features elaborate Louis XIII-style stone and brickwork with turrets, Juliet balconies, and a ...

Villa Beau-Chêne, the 12-bedroom Parisian mansion where dancer and activist Josephine Baker made her home in the 1930s and ’40s, is on the market for €20.84 million (US$24.45 million). Baker, the ...

A Black woman will, for the first time, join other luminaries interred in France's Pantheon. That woman is entertainer Josephine Baker, and the honor will take place Tuesday. But critics in France say ...

Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900–1939, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art (GMA) in Athens through November 2, offers just that: a shimmering doorway into early 20th-century Paris, ...

A failed fire extinguisher prank at a raunchy male dance show caused the crowd to turn on a mum who bit back – literally. Melanie Jade Alderson was hit with criminal charges following the alcohol ...

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