At 4 p.m., a guided tour of the grounds of Villa Beau-Chêne, built between 1890 and 1891 by local architect Louis Gilbert. It was here, around 1929, that Josephine Baker found refuge among villas and ...

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.

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 ...