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  • ...he 1970s), and the round-cupola, quarterpole-free "Florilegio" big top (in the 1990s). ...to be the granddaughter of a French nobleman who had fled to Italy during the French revolution.
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  • ...t compete with the major circuses of the [[The Togni Family|Togni]] and [[The Orfei Family|Orfei]] families, for example. Yet their companies often conta ...ly instead of France? The story doesn’t tell—but the Zoppé circus dynasty became an Italian one.
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  • ...rn Europe. His is by far the most famous (and most copied) circus clown in the world. ...g, and the street-rooted audience participation that appeared in Europe in the early 1980s.
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  • ...rded on film (in E.A. Dupont’s ''Varieté'' in 1925), but they were also the subjects of an Academy Award-nominated documentary, Jack Cummings’s ''Swi ...Cardownie, Cardone, Codone, Candone, and Codona, which eventually stuck in the 1870s. Henry Codona married a French woman, Victorine Régnier (1841-1924),
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  • ...epartment, with a break for National Service in the Royal Air Force. After the Bertram Mills Circus closed down in 1967, he and Cyril Mills remained close ...ath of their father, [[Bertram Mills|Bertram W. Mills]], in 1938 to direct the great circus he had created in England in 1920—until its closure in 1
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  • ...rrie Harvey has been a performer all her life: She made her stage debut at the age of nine. Later, she trained in Musical Theatre at Guildford School of A ...sh trade newspaper, Carrie auditioned and got the classy part of "Belinda, the Bearded Wonder."
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  • ...gendary stand-up comedian: "A smashing bloke and a very very nice man… A loyal friend and a very very very nice man." Quite an amazing epitaph for anybody ...e; it was there that Norman’s father developed his love of horses, since the company’s products were delivered by dray horses.
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  • ...wer Circus]], of which he became the undisputed star and, without a doubt, the most popular attraction. ===An Accidental Clown Dynasty===
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  • ...vies, and even popular songs. Its history is also closely intertwined with the life of its three historic directors: Louis Fernando, [[Geronimo Medrano]], ...drano’s reign in January 1963 was an event attended by the Tout-Paris of the arts, and its demolition in December 1973 caused a massive uproar that even
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  • ...se its prominence before the first World War and proved unable to adapt to the post-war era. ...ndsetting house whose rich and often glorious life had lasted forty years, the Nouveau Cirque finally called it quits.
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  • ..., his traveling equipment, which he conceived, was extremely innovative at the time and would inspire some of his competitors' way of touring. Palisse was ===The Clown Palisse===
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  • ...par faire perdre à Jérôme Medrano son cirque au profit de la famille [[The Bouglione Family|Bouglione]] près d'un siècle plus tard. ...équente à l'époque. Quelques membres de la vaste et célèbre famille [[The Chiarini Family|Chiarini]], le dresseur de singes et de chiens [[Jules Bugn
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  • ...à 1816, il avait abrité le deuxième Cirque Olympique des [[The Franconi Dynasty|Franconi]], qui était situé de l'autre côté de l'ensemble, rue du Mont- ...fourni tant de nombreux régisseurs aux cirques parisiens qu'un ''Monsieur Loyal'' est aujourd'hui le terme français qui désigne un présentateur ou maît
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  • ...ra that followed the war: The Cirque Bureau folded its big top in 1953, at the end of what was advertised as its "99th season." ==1. THE BUREAU BROTHERS' CIRCUS==
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  • ...origines alsaciennes et italiennes mêlées. Son père était [[The Gruss Dynasty|Théophile André Gruss]], mieux connu sous le nom d’André ou Dédé (19 ...950), et ses sœurs [[The Gruss Dynasty|Bella]] (1948-2012) et [[The Gruss Dynasty|Martine]] (1956-1994) ont été formés à toutes les disciplines du cirque
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