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Show looks beyond tropes of exoticism, hyper-sexuality and diva behaviour to how stars gained control of their own image

Book highlights performer’s wartime contribution and how she used her fame to provide cover and promote equal rights

For the first time in English, the sensational memoirs of Josephine Baker – cabaret star, activist and spy

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Time to break out your frou-frou frocks

Jewish Museum in Berlin buys painting of Weintraubs Syncopators, who played the soundtrack to the Weimar cabaret

The singer, dancer, superstar and (as it later turned out) spy had been the toast of Paris in the 1920s

You won’t feel the anti-tourist heat so much if you step away from the usual crowds, says Martin Robinson. Here’s how to nail a trip to the Spanish capital with kids

France is redesigning its 10, 20 and 50 euro cent coins to honour women who have marked the country's history. The faces of national icons Simone Veil, Josephine Baker and Marie Curie will appear on coins set to go into circulation from the middle of 2024.

French President Emmanuel Macron led a ceremony Wednesday honouring Missak Manouchian, a stateless poet of Armenian origin who died fighting the Nazi occupation during World War II. Manouchian’s induction in the Panthéon mausoleum in Paris alongside other French national heroes is seen as a tribute to all the foreign fighters…

A stateless Armenian poet who died fighting the Nazi occupation of France during World War II on Wednesday becomes the first non-French Resistance fighter to enter the Pantheon mausoleum for national heroes.