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The list French circus performers includes Suzanne Valadon, Renée Adorée, Jean Richard, Charles Blondin and Achille Zavatta. The list consists of 17 members and 1 sublist.
  • 1.

    Renée Adorée
    French, Actress
    Renée Adorée
    Overview: Renée Adorée (born Jeanne de la Fonte; 30 September 1898 – 5 October 1933) was a French actress who appeared in Hollywood silent movies during the 1920s. She is most famous for her role as Melisande in ...
    Date of birth: 30 September 1898
    Date of death: 5 October 1933
    Age: 35 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 1" (155 cm)
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    Actresses from Hauts-de-France 36T
    Actors from Hauts-de-France 77T
    Mass media people from Lille 21T
  • 2.

    Suzanne Valadon
    French painter
    Suzanne Valadon
    Overview: Suzanne Valadon (23 September 1865 – 7 April 1938) was a French painter and artists' model who was born Marie-Clémentine Valadon at Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne, France. In 1894, Valadon became ...
    Date of birth: 23 September 1865
    Date of death: 7 April 1938
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Painter
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century French women artists 232T
    19th-century French women artists 192T
    Suzanne Valadon 7T
  • 3.

    James Thierrée
    French actor
    James Thierrée
    Overview: James Spencer Henry Edmond Marcel Thierrée (born 2 May 1974 in Lausanne, Switzerland) is a Swiss circus performer, violinist, actor and director who is best known for his theatre performances which blend ...
    Date of birth: 2 May 1974
    Age: 50
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Film Director
    Gender: Male
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    Swiss circus performers 2T
    Best Supporting Actor César Award winners 38T
    Alumni of the French National Academy of Dramatic Arts 172T
  • 4.
    Death of Sarah Guyard-Guillot
    Overview: Sarah "Sasoun" Guyard-Guillot (September 12, 1981 – June 29, 2013) was a French acrobat and aerialist who fell to her death during a performance of the Cirque du Soleil show Kà at MGM Grand in Las Vegas ...
    Date of birth: 12 September 1981
    Date of death: 29 June 2013
    Age: 31 (age at death)
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    MGM Grand Las Vegas 13T
    Deaths by person in the United States 424T
    Cirque du Soleil performers 25T
  • 5.

    Jean Richard
    French actor
    Jean Richard
    Overview: Jean Richard (18 April 1921 – 12 December 2001) was a French actor, comedian, and circus entrepreneur. He is best remembered for his role as Georges Simenon's Maigret in the eponymous French television ...
    Date of birth: 18 April 1921
    Date of death: 12 December 2001
    Age: 80 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
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    University of Burgundy alumni 29T
    Alumni of the French National Academy of Dramatic Arts 164T
    French male television actors 580T
  • 6.

    Raphaëlle Boitel
    French circus performer, contortionist, acrobat, actress, theatre director, and choreographer
    Raphaëlle Boitel
    Overview: Raphaëlle Boitel (born 1984) is a French circus performer, contortionist, acrobat, actress, theatre director, and choreographer. She started as a contortionist street performer as a child, then appeared ...
    Date of birth: 1984
    Age: 40
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Choreographer
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    French women choreographers 13T
    French child actresses 33T
    French stage actresses 558T
  • 7.

    Charles Blondin
    tightrope walker and acrobat
    Charles Blondin
    Overview: Charles Blondin (born Jean François Gravelet, 28 February 1824 – 22 February 1897) was a French tightrope walker and acrobat. He toured the United States and was known for crossing the 1,100 ft (340 ...
    Date of birth: 28 February 1824
    Date of death: 19 February 1897
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Stunts
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    People from Hesdin 1T
    19th-century circus performers 26T
    Tightrope walkers 35T
  • 8.

    Achille Zavatta
    French clown
    Achille Zavatta
    Overview: Achille Zavatta (6 May 1915 – 16 November 1993) was a French clown, artist and circus operator.
    Date of birth: 6 May 1915
    Date of death: 16 November 1993
    Age: 78 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Gender: Male
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    1993 suicides 35T
    French mimes 15T
    Male suicides 1,509T
  • 9.

    Line Marsa
    French singer
    Line Marsa
    Overview: Annetta Giovanna Gassion (née Maillard; Livorno, 4 August 1895 – Paris, 6 February 1945) was best known as the mother of internationally renowned singer-songwriter and actress Édith Piaf, considered F ...
    Date of birth: 4 August 1895
    Date of death: 6 February 1945
    Age: 49 (age at death)
    Occupation: Singer
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century French women singers 185T
    Édith Piaf 5T
    20th-century women singers 3,624T
  • 10.

    Louis Alphonse Gassion
    French circus performer
    Louis Alphonse Gassion
    Overview: Louis Alphonse Gassion (10 May, 1881 – 3 March, 1944), is mostly known as the father of the legendary singer-songwriter and actress Édith Piaf, who was known as France's national chanteuse and was ...
    Date of birth: 10 May 1881
    Date of death: 3 March 1944
    Age: 62 (age at death)
    Gender: Male
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  • 11.

    Nala Damajanti
    Stage name of a late 19th-century snake charmer
    Nala Damajanti
    Overview: Nala Damajanti was the stage name of a late 19th-century snake charmer who toured with P.T. Barnum's circus and performed at the famed Folies Bergère in Paris. French sources identify her as Emilie Poupon ...
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    People from Jura (department) 59T
    1861 births 2,865T
    Sideshow performers 106T
  • 12.
    Selika Lazevski
    Overview: Selika Lazevski was a black horsewoman in Belle Époque Paris. In 1891, she was the subject of a series of six photographic portraits taken at the studio of Paul Nadar in Paris.
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Horseriding
    Gender: Female
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    19th-century circus performers 27T
    19th-century French women 49T
    French female equestrians 21T
  • 13.

    Emma Saïd Ben Mohamed
    French singer
    Emma Saïd Ben Mohamed
    Overview: Emma Saïd Ben Mohamed (10 December 1876 – 18 July 1930) was a French singer and circus performer. She was the maternal grandmother of Edith Piaf, France's national chanteuse. she worked as a singer and ...
    Date of birth: 10 December 1876
    Date of death: 18 July 1930
    Age: 53 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Singer
    Gender: Female
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    Tuberculosis deaths in France 109T
    19th-century women singers 504T
    Édith Piaf 5T
  • 14.

    Rosa Bouglione
    French circus performer (1910–2018)
    Rosa Bouglione
    Overview: Rosa Bouglione (née Van Been; 21 December 1910 – 26 August 2018) was a French circus performer and the matriarch of the Bouglione circus family.
    Date of birth: 21 December 1910
    Date of death: 26 August 2018
    Age: 107 (age at death)
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    2018 deaths 9,212T
    Women centenarians 1,059T
    2018 deaths 7,472T
  • 15.
    Henri Franconi
    Overview: Henri Franconi, full name Jean Gérard Henri Franconi, (4 November 1779 – 22 July 1849) was a French playwright and circus performer of the early 19th century.
    Date of birth: 4 November 1779
    Date of death: 22 July 1849
    Age: 69 (age at death)
    Occupation: Playwright
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    Adolphe Franconi
    French playwright and circus performer
    Adolphe Franconi
    Overview: Henri Adolphe Franconi (1801 – 2 November 1855) was a French playwright and circus performer.
    Date of birth: 1801
    Date of death: 2 November 1855
    Age: 54 (age at death)
    Occupation: Playwright
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  • 17.

    Koringa
    French circus artist (1913–1976)
    Koringa
    Overview: Renée Bernard, known as Koringa (1913-1976) was a French circus performer and snake charmer. She was billed as the "Only Female Fakir in the World" and "the only female yogi".
    Date of birth: 1913
    Date of death: 1976
    Age: 62 (age at death)
    Occupation: Dancer
    Gender: Female
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