On August 19, 1961, Josephine Baker was decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honor at the Miland Castle. In 1937, she had acquired French citizenship and when the war broke out, she joined the resistance recruited by Captain Abtey, head of the military counter-espionage in Paris. She used her notoriety to retrieve information, and took advantage of her travels to carry secret messages on her musical partitions and inside her dress (©Archives Sud...