Agent Josephine, page 52
10 Abtey, La Guerre Secrète, p. 211.*
11 Ean Wood, The Josephine Baker Story, Sanctuary Publishing, 2000, pp. 242–3.
12 Ibid.
13 SHD AI 1P 66791, pp. 17, 21.
14 Jean-Claude Baker and Chris Chase, Josephine: The Hungry Heart, Random House, 1993, pp. 262–3.
15 Ibid.
16 ‘The day a French part of Yorkshire welcomed a star’, Yorkshire Air Museum, 15 May 2020 – https://yorkshireairmuseum.org/remembrance/josephine-baker-1945-elvington-york-visit/
17 Baker and Chase, Josephine: The Hungry Heart, p. 267.
18 Baker and Sauvage, Les Mémoires, p. 109.
19 Ibid.
20 Abtey, La Guerre Secrète, pp. 219–20.*
21 Baker and Sauvage, Les Mémoires, pp. 82, 83–4; Baker and Chase, Josephine: The Hungry Heart, p. 266.
22 ‘When Nazis Took All The Bells’, National Bell Festival – https://www.bells.org/blog/when-nazis-took-all-bells
23 Baker and Sauvage, Les Mémoires, pp. 82, 83–4; Josephine Baker and Jo Bouillon, Josephine, WH Allen, 1978, p. 142.
24 SHD AI 1P 66791, p. 36.
EPILOGUE
1 Jean-Claude Baker and Chris Chase, Josephine: The Hungry Heart, Random House, 1993, p. 268.
2 Rebecca Donner, All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days, Canongate, 2021, pp. 375–445
3 SHD AI 1P 66791, p. 44; Alain Juillet and Marie Gatard, ‘Josephine Baker in the Panthéon’, AASSDN, 19 September 2021 – https://aassdn.org/amicale/josephine-baker-in-the-pantheon/
4 SHD AI 1P 66791, p. 17.
5 Ibid., p. 29.
6 Ibid.
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid., pp. 51, 54.
9 SHD GR 16P 28445, Baker Josephine, p. 11.
10 ‘Josephine Baker, Chevalier (1906–1975)’, American Society of the French Legion of Honour, Vol. 27, No. 2, Summer 2020, pp. 3–4.
11 Federal Bureau of Investigation, Josephine Baker, PART 1 of 2, BUFILE: 62-95834
12 Personal communications with Jean-Pierre Reggiori, 2022; Courtesy of Jean-Pierre Reggiori private collection: Emmanuel Debono, ‘De quel antiracisme Joséphine Baker est-elle le nom?’, 29 November 2021, LEDDV Le Droit De Vivre.
13 Jessica Goldstein, ‘March on Washington had one female speaker: Josephine Baker’, 23 August 2011, Washington Post – https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/march-on-washington-had-one-female-speaker-josephine-baker/2011/08/08/gIQAHqhBaJ_story.html
14 Baker and Chase, Josephine: The Hungry Heart, p. 267.
15 ‘Josephine Baker’, Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4, 30 November 2021.
16 Henry Hurford Janes – Josephine Baker Collection, Collection Call Number JWJ MSS 2, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Archives at Yale
17 Author interview with Jean-Pierre Reggiori, pp. 2, 9.
18 Angelique Chrisafis, ‘Josephine Baker, music hall star and civil rights activist, enters Panthéon’, 30 November 2021, The Guardian – https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/30/black-french-american-rights-activist-josephine-baker-enters-pantheon
19 Hanna Diamond, ‘The Starlet-Spy’, Medium.com – https://medium.com/truly-adventurous/she-was-a-global-superstar-she-was-a-world-class-spy-df5263d51adc
20 US CIA/Paul L. Kesaris (editor), The Rote Kapelle: The CIA’s History of Soviet Intelligence and Espionage Networks in Western Europe, 1936–1945, University Publications of America Inc., 1979, in Classified Studies in Twentieth-Century Diplomatic And Military History, pp. 120, 121, 317, 347; SHD GR 28 P9 14280, Abtey, p. 80.
21 Jacques Abtey and Dr Fritz Unterberg Gibhardt, 2ème Bureau Contre Abwehr, La Table Ronde, 1967, pp. 99–105.*
22 Johannes Mario Simmel, It Can’t Always Be Caviar, Anthony Blond, 1965, prelim pages.
23 Ibid., p. 3.
24 Ibid., p. 77.
25 Ibid., pp. 440–7.
26 Personal correspondence between the author and Gilbert Renault’s relatives, 2021; Letter from Josephine Baker to Colonel Remy (sic), 22 January 1962, courtesy of the Association for the Defence and the Memory of Colonel Rémy; Colonel Rémy, J.A., Éditions Galic, 1961, pp. 28–30.*
27 Ulrich Stolte, ‘Der Legendare Agent Thomas Lieven’, Stuttgarter Zeitung, 12/11/2019; Note: strictly speaking, Josephie Baker wasn’t serving as a Deuxième Bureau agent by this time.
28 SHD GR 28 P9 14280, Abtey, p. 74.
29 Ibid., pp. 38, 81, 87.
30 SHD GRZ 2000 1618, J Abtey, pp. 5–6, 7, 31, 34, 35.
31 SHD GR 16 P 2170, Abtey Maurice Leonard, pp. 4, 15, 22, 26, 27.
32 SHD GRZ 2000 1618, J Abtey, p. 34.
33 Ibid., pp. 5–6, 7, 31, 34, 35.
34 Ader-Nordmann Auction Notes, p. 13.
35 Baker and Chase, Josephine: The Hungry Heart, p. 275.
36 SHD GRZ 2000 1618. J Abtey, p. 49.
37 ‘Dunderdale, Wilfred Albert’, 23 September 2004, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, – https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-40173
38 private Dunderdale family archive, various wartime documents and photographs, courtesy of Paul Biddle MBE.
39 Ibid.
40 private Dunderdale family archive, letter of 5 December 1991, to Mrs Dunderdale from Sir Colin McColl KCMG, courtesy Paul Biddle MBE.
41 Ibid.
42 Angélique de Saint-Exupéry, ‘Josephine Baker, honourable correspondent’, Fondation Charles de Gaulle, 12 February 2021 – https://www.charles-de-gaulle.org/blog/2021/02/12/josephine-baker-honorable-correspondante-par-angelique-de-saint-exupery/
43 Angélique de Saint-Exupéry, Château et Jardins des Milandes, 2019.
44 ‘Angélique de Saint-Exupéry, dynamic guardian of the Milandes, the former castle of Joséphine Baker’, Archyde, 29 November 2021.
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The Association supports the work of Colonel Rémy, so that it does not disappear, and ensuring that it is preserved for posterity.
The Association pays homage to so much incredible work and heroism, so many small defeats and great victories, so many joys, sorrows, sacrifices and the suffering of all those who were members of the Brotherhood Networks (Confrérie Notre-Dame), which did so much for the cause of the Resistance in World War Two. Also known as the ‘Dame-Castille’ and ‘Centurie’ networks, it included those who made up the ‘Sussex’ teams, and this Franco-British unit served with great courage and honour in the war.
Colonel Rémy was their leader, General de Gaulle their inspiration, France their supreme goal and raison d’être.
The Association is a non-profit organisation, which falls under the Law of 1 July 1901 and the Decree of 16 August 1901. Its purpose, to the exclusion of any political or campaigning ends, is to:
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• Carry out educational and civic action aimed at the younger generations by organising exhibitions on the work of Colonel Rémy.
It was created on 29 September 2020, at the Sous-Préfecture de Guingamp, under the number W222005617 by members of the family, direct descendants of Gilbert Renault.
Membership is open to everyone, the Association being inclusive. Becoming a member obliges one to ‘commit oneself to respecting the statutes and the ethical charter, to pay, if necessary, an annual subscription’.
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