by Claude Dufresne · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782749905518
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«Il était une fois Joséphine Baker» is the biography of Joséphine Baker by Claude Dufresne, published by Michel Lafon in paperback (281 pages, in French).
Biography of Joséphine Baker that traces her rise from humble origins to international stardom. It covers her work in dance, singing and acting, her activism and her involvement in the French Resistance during World War II, and closes with her cultural legacy as a 20th-century icon.
It was published in 2006. The cover shows a black-and-white photograph of Joséphine Baker framed with a gold border.
For readers interested in biographies of artists, the history of entertainment and the French Resistance during World War II.
Claude Dufresne was a French writer, best known as the author of numerous historical biographies. He won many prizes among them the Prix Goncourt for biography. Among his subjects were Ninon de Lenclos, Anne de Bretagne, Francois I, George Sand, Balzac, Chopin, Morny, Bernard Blier, Hortense Schneider, the Marquise de Sevigne, Marie Antoinette, Marie Walewska, Jacques Offenbach, Luis Mariano, Tristan Bernard, Berlioz, Mistinguette, etc.
