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 ...

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 ...

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.

Iconic Jazz Age performer Josephine Baker left America for France in the Roaring Twenties. The first Black woman to star in a major film, the entertainer and activist landed just west of Paris and ...

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 ...

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