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Jardin des Ambassadeurs Paris + Josephine Baker + Simone Seguoin + Françoise de la Guerre

We Would Do it All Again

Embassy world Paris. Amidst these hallowed hectares is an exhibition to the female fighters of the Resistance. Josephine Baker defied definition. Actress, dancer, spy, war heroine, adoptive mother of orphans. Oh, did we mention beauty? And nobody has ever looked hotter with an MP40 machine gun than her compatriot Simone Segouin. Before Simone died in February 2023 she would say, “If I had to do it all again I would do it. I have no regrets.” Fellow freedom fighter Françoise Bigon looks on bemused: “You found the best place. I am France!”

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