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  • ...nents; upon his death in 2010, he was the last surviving member of a group of exceptional cat trainers who had worked for the legendary [[Alfred Court]]. ...apprenticed as a butcher. But he shared with his uncle a passion for wild animals—and not particularly dead ones!
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  • ...y|Swoboda]] family of Austria, and which had no connection (beside the use of its famous name) with the legendary [[Cirque Medrano (Paris)|Parisian circu ...nasties, the Casartelli family managed to become in just a few decades one of the largest circus families in Europe; it counts today about one hundred me
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  • ...which were much ahead of their time, have made his one of the great names of the twentieth century’s European circus. ...aficionados who were lucky to have known him. Jean Houcke was the grandson of [[The Houcke Dynasty|Jean Léonard Houcke]], a French equestrian who had se
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  • ...d in the circus as such, but he was fascinated by its animals. The process of training them would become his passion. ...—presented the act. At that time, Wim also took care of all sorts of animals.
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