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In recent years, Josephine has been praised for her philanthropy (she adopted a number of homeless children), her talent (she was a superb dancer), and her patriotism (she passed on information received from the gullible German officers during the occupation of Paris to the Resistance). But she also received great praise from one of the most prolific and popular of European authors, Georges Simenon, the Belgian writer of the Inspector Maigrert mystery series. Georges words could not have been more eloquent:
"Hers is, without question, the world's most famous and desired butt. A butt so famous, so desired that it might well be an object of adoration, enveloped in dense billows of incense burned by the lust of thousands. It is a photogenic butt. The silver screen captures its firm, sweet contours, its lascivious quivers, and wild convulsions. We have seen it wreathed in bananas warmly glinting of gold. We have seen it studded with pink feathers of delicate hue, bringing out the bronze of the flesh. We have seen it nude. But most of all we have see it so taut, jutting so far out from the torso in a staunch gesture of defiance that it becomes a being apart, with a life of its own, far from Baker's face and eyes, comically crossed in stupor. What a synthesis! A synthesis of animal delight, as young and alive as jazz."[>
No wonder Georges was one of the most best selling authors in the world.
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