Madame Saqui (born Marguerite-Antoinette Lalanne on February 26, 1786 in Agde, Hérault ; February 21, 1866) was a noted French tightrope walker or "rope...
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Napoleon's decree on the theatres, it became the Café d'Apollon. Théâtre de Madame Saqui (1816) Théâtre du Temple (1832, a vaudeville house run by Roux, dit Dorsay)...
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2023-05-03. Becoming a Good Creature. Kirkus Reviews. Madame Saqui. Kirkus Reviews. "Madame Saqui: Revolutionary Rope Dancer by Lisa Robinson". Publishers...
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sometimes at Madame Saqui's theater and more often again at the Théâtre Comte, but also in the provinces. Paul Ginisty, in a biography of Madame Saqui dating...
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Royal Musselburgh Golf Club, Scotland. 1816 – French tightrope walker Madame Saqui performed in England to celebrate the opening of Vauxhall Bridge. After...
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Léotard, 19th century Acrobatic performer who developed the art of trapeze Madame Saqui, 19th century popular funambulist Mathieu Ganio, Danseur Étoile of the...
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boulevard du Temple, operated from 1804 to 1806. On 12 December 1816, Madame Saqui, the tightrope-walker (or 'dancer') bought the Café d'Apollon, site of...
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nineteenth centuries was a rope-dancer and sometimes, as in the case of Madame Saqui, a mime. But by the late nineteenth century, the word would have conjured...
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Walstein - Alais, J. - V&A Search the Collections". 10 January 1815. "Madame Saqui, or Marguerite-Antoinette Lalanne (1876-1866) performing on the Tightrope...
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Joseph had moved to Paris where he was hired as an acrobat and actor for Madame Saqui's troupe. Joseph was one of the many immigrants who had left Haiti in...
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