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Welcome to Circopedia,
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A project of the Big Apple Circus,
inspired and funded by the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation.


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ALFRED COURT

Alfred Court (1883-1977) is perhaps the most remarkable French circus personality of the first half of the twentieth century. Beginning his career as an outstanding acrobat, he became a successful, yet adventurous, circus entrepreneur, first in Mexico and later in Europe, before ending as one of the greatest wild animal trainers of all times—and as such, a major circus star in Europe and America. He was born into a wealthy family in Marseilles, France, on January 1, 1883. His father, Joseph Court-Payen, worked for the family’s soap business (Marseilles is France’s soap industry center), and his mother was the daughter of the marquis de Clapier, a rich aristocrat well introduced in political circles. Alfred was the youngest of a family of ten children... (more...)

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