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Kay’s Odyssey the Experience
Dorpsstraat 2
Wagenberg ( bij Breda)
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10/07/2026

He found himself treated without the racism that shaped his everyday experience in the United States...

Miles Davis's relationship with France began in 1949, when he first travelled to Paris and found himself treated, for the first time in his life, without the racism that shaped his everyday experience in the United States.

That relationship never really ended.

In October 1989, then-Mayor of Paris (and future French President) Jacques Chirac awarded Davis the Grande Médaille de Vermeil, one of the city's most significant civic honours.

Two years later, in 1991, French Culture Minister Jack Lang went further, naming Davis a Knight of the Legion of Honour — France's highest order of merit — and describing him as "the Picasso of Jazz."

The timing was almost unbearably poignant. Davis received the honour less than two months before his death that September.

The country where he'd fallen in love, found freedom he couldn't find at home, and returned to throughout his life, made sure to tell him what he meant to it before it was too late.

[📸 Tom Palumbo from New York City, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons]