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Joseph Bouillon (3 May 1908 – 9 July 1984) was a French composer, conductor and violinist. As Joséphine Baker 's fourth husband, he enjoyed prominence in the 1950s. Biography. Bouillon's father and his brother Gabriel were musicologists, respectively in Montpellier and Paris.
Joseph Jean Étienne Bouillon dit Jo Bouillon, né le 3 mai 1908 à Montpellier ( Hérault) et mort le 9 juillet 1984 à Buenos Aires ( Argentine ), est un compositeur, chef d'orchestre et violoniste français, Quatrième mari de Joséphine Baker, il jouit d'une grande notoriété dans les années 1950 .
30 de nov. de 2021 · After serving in the Resistance during WWII, Baker married conductor Jo Bouillon (1908-1984). Childless and in her forties, she set about building a family of children of all skin colours who...
For some time, Baker lived with her children and an enormous staff in the château in Dordogne, France, with her fourth husband, Jo Bouillon. Bouillon claimed that Baker bore one child, though it was stillborn in 1941, an incident that precipitated an emergency hysterectomy.
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She was the only woman to address the March on Washington in 1963, taking the microphone after Martin Luther King had given his iconic "I have a dream" speech. In a personal bid to prove there is "only one race", Baker adopted 12 children from across the world to live with her in her French chateau, which she later tried to turn into a "Global Vill...
Plucked from the chorus line of "La Revue Negre" -- an attempt to bring "authentic" Black American culture to Europe -- she became its star and caused a sensation. It was the first time most Parisians had ever heard jazz or seen it performed. The writer Ernest Hemingway -- who was living in the French capital at the time -- said Baker was "the most...
France, which had many Black African colonies, was dumbstruck by her wild performance, which at the time some saw as a parody of white male sexual fantasies. "With racist fantasies on the one hand and colonialist fantasies on the other it seems fair to say that Baker's impact on Paris... had as much to do with her colour as her talent," American li...
After her marriage to the French industrialist Jean Lion in 1937 she took French nationality, but the relationship was not to last. However, she helped him and his Jewish family escape the Nazis and reach the United States. It was to be one of many wartime exploits in which Baker showed the same mettle that led her to refuse to perform before segre...
After several miscarriages, she and her fourth husband, orchestra director Jo Bouillon, adopted 12 children of different ethnic backgrounds. She installed what she called her "Rainbow Tribe" in a chateau in the Dordogne in southwestern France. Baker later transformed her multiracial utopia into a theme park dedicated to world peace. But her high id...
5 de dic. de 2021 · Baker and her husband, the bandleader Jo Bouillon, adopted twelve children from multiple countries. Having survived poverty and segregation in America, Baker wanted to assemble a “rainbow tribe”...
22 de ago. de 2021 · Franco-American dancer and singer Joséphine Baker, a prominent figure in the French Resistance during World War II, will be inducted into the Panthéon on November 30, the newspaper Le Parisien...
