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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Cirque_d'Hiver_poster_(c.1935).jpg|thumb|right|300px|The Bouglione Brothers (c.1935)]]The Bougliones were a family of Sinti Gypsies. They had made their fortune with a successful hoax: After having purchased an old stock of unused posters for the 1905 French tour of the [[Buffalo-Bill’s Wild West]], they had launched a colorful, if suspicious, ''Stade Buffalo-Bill'' in 1924. In spite of a very European circus program, they had managed to lure under its big top Belgian and then French provincial audiences, who were apparently content with a lively and rather exotic atmosphere (certainly owing more to the Bougliones’ vibrant Gypsy blood than to the American West) and a makeshift "Wild West" presentation at the end of the show.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Cirque_d'Hiver_poster_(c.1935).jpg|thumb|right|300px|The Bouglione Brothers (c.1935)]]The Bougliones were a family of Sinti Gypsies. They had made their fortune with a successful hoax: After having purchased an old stock of unused posters for the 1905 French tour of the [[Buffalo-Bill’s Wild West]], they had launched a colorful, if suspicious, ''Stade Buffalo-Bill'' in 1924. In spite of a very European circus program, they had managed to lure under its big top Belgian and then French provincial audiences, who were apparently content with a lively and rather exotic atmosphere (certainly owing more to the Bougliones’ vibrant Gypsy blood than to the American West) and a makeshift "Wild West" presentation at the end of the show.</div></td></tr>
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