Château des Milandes in the Dordogne region
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The Château des Milandes is a
manor house in the
commune of
Castelnaud-la-Chapelle in the
Dordogne département (
Périgord ) of
France . Built by François de Caumont around 1489, it was, until 1535, the main house of the lords of Caumont, who preferred to live in this manor house instead of the large, uncomfortable medieval
castle of
Château de Castelnaud-la-Chapelle .
In 1940, the entertainer Josephine Baker rented the château and then bought it in 1947. It has been listed as a monument historique French Ministry of Culture since 1986.
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During her early career, Baker was among the most celebrated performers to headline the revues of the
Folies Bergère in
Paris . Her performance in the revue
Un vent de folie in 1927 caused a sensation in the city. Her costume, consisting of only a short skirt of artificial bananas and a beaded necklace, became an iconic image and a symbol both of the
Jazz Age and the
Roaring Twenties . Baker was celebrated by artists and intellectuals of the era, who variously dubbed her the “Black Venus”, the “Black Pearl”, the “Bronze Venus”, and the “Creole Goddess”. Born in
St. Louis, Missouri , she renounced her U.S. citizenship and became a
French national after her marriage to French industrialist Jean Lion in 1937. She raised her children in France.
She aided the
French Resistance during
World War II . After the war, she was awarded the
Resistance Medal by the
French Committee of National Liberation , the
Croix de Guerre by the
French military , and was named a
Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur by General
Charles de Gaulle . Baker sang: “I have two loves, my country and Paris.” On 30 November 2021, she was interred in the
Panthéon in Paris, the first black woman to receive one of the highest honors in France. As her resting place remains in
Monaco Cemetery , a
cenotaph was installed in vault 13 of the crypt in the Panthéon.
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