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...rigueur for big French state projects. As well it should, for its delicate purpose is to pull together France's collection of 300,000 artistic and cultural artifacts from Asia, the Americas, Africa and Oceania without a whiff of ex-imperial condescension. It will be the most visible Parisian legacy of Jacques Chirac, who is winding up 12 years as President and was Paris' mayor for 18 years before that; its inauguration offers him a rare respite from the political failures that have plagued his final years in office. Chirac himself decided in 1999 to award the museum project...
...Baker, later nicknamed "the Black Venus," left the U.S. for France while still a teen, seeking the relative racial freedom of the Parisian stage. Her sensual style of dance quickly won over the city and made her a star. During the late 1920s, she was said to be the highest-paid entertainer in Europe and was certainly among its most photographed?inspiring fashion designers and a frenzy of suitors (she received around 1,500 marriage proposals). Baker was active in the French resistance in World War II?often smuggling coded messages on sheet music?and remained a lifelong fighter against...
...Akio Bouillon, is scheduled to greet guests at the Ch?teau des Milandes?Baker's Dordogne mansion and a highlight of the eight-day itinerary. Tour participants will also attend all-day celebrations at the Village des Milandes on June 3, and spend several days exploring the diva's favorite Parisian haunts. In a city where racial tensions have recently flared again, Baker's life and example of tolerance are as relevant as ever...
...centenary falls next month, [an error occurred while processing this directive] and a special tour (details at blackparisdivas.com) has been devised in celebration of a remarkable life. Baker, later nicknamed "the Black Venus," left the U.S. for France while still a teen, seeking the relative racial freedom of the Parisian stage. Her sensual style of dance quickly won over the city and made her a star. During the late 1920s, she was said to be the highest-paid entertainer in Europe and was certainly among its most photographed - inspiring fashion designers and a frenzy of suitors (she received around...
...winning the prestigious Jonathan Levy Award, which the Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA) grants to the most promising undergraduate actor in Harvard College. Martin charts his journey to acting beginning with his summer in Avignon, France, where he enrolled in a seminar taught by a famous Parisian director, despite the fact that he was there to study government. “I fell in love with his style of acting and with acting in general,” says Martin, who performed in the Avignon Theater Festival that summer.Since then, Martin has been involved in about a dozen...