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  • ...7, she enrolled in [[Alexis Gruss]]’s Conservatoire National des Arts du Cirque (École au Carré), the first professional circus school in Western Europe, ...debut as a member of the resident company of Alexis Gruss’s [[Cirque à l’ancienne]] in Paris. An acrobat and aerialist, she performed a trampoline act that m
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  • ...rs.jpg|thumb|left|400px|Patrick, Bella, and Alexis Gruss, Jr. at the Grand Cirque de France (1964)]]Alexis Jacques André Gruss was born in his parents' livi ...o-Circus'', ''Medrano Voyageur'', ''Cirque-Zoo Jean Richard'', and ''Grand Cirque de France''. There, Alexis, his brother [[The Gruss Dynasty|Patrick]] (b.19
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  • ...: In spite of its French title, French audiences quickly discovered that ''Cirque Charles'' was actually a German enterprise. The Franco-German war of 1870 a ...1950s of very large traveling circuses in Europe (such as Franz Althoff, [[Cirque Pinder|Pinder]], [[Chipperfield Circus|Chipperfield]] and [[Billy Smart]]),
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  • ...ably [[Peter Gandey]]’s Chinese State Circus, and [[Santus Circus]], "Le Cirque de France," a show ran in the United Kingdom by an old French circus family ...ch successful circuses as New York’s [[Big Apple Circus]] , Canada’s [[Cirque du Soleil]] and, perhaps most significantly, by Nell’s own alma mater, Ci
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