Cirque Bureau - Revision history

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 File:Bureau_Palmiri_Poster.png|Poster featuring the Palmiri Family (1937)
 File:Bureau_Program_46.jpg|Progran Cover (1946)
 File:Bureau_Big_Top.jpg|Cirque Bureau (1946)
 File:Jules_Glasner_1946.jpg|Jules Glasner (1946)

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 File:Bureau_Sisters.jpg|Robert, Marguerite, and Anna Bureau-Ferroni (c.1905)
 File:Jules_Glasner_-_dogs.jpg|Jules Glasner (c.1910)
 File:Bureau_Program_30.jpg|Program Cover (1930)
 File:Bureau_-_Kimris.png|Poster featuring Les Kimris (1930)

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 File:Bureau_Soury.jpg|Poster by Gustave Soury (1949)
 File:Jules-Anna_Glasner.jpg|Jules and Anna Glasner (1948)
 File:Bureau_Program_1952.jpg|Program Cover for the RTF tour (1952)
 File:Bureau_-_Elsane.png|Poster featuring Elsane (1953)

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 File:Bureau_Program_46.jpg|Progran Cover (1946)
 File:Bureau_Big_Top.jpg|Cirque Bureau (1946)
 File:Troupe_Moustier_copy_2.png|The Moustier Family (1947)
 File:Bureau_Program_Cover.jpg|Program Cover (1948)

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 File:Bureau_Palmiri_Poster.png|Poster featuring the Palmiri Family (1937)
 File:Bureau_Program_46.jpg|Progran Cover (1946)
 File:Troupe_Moustier_copy_2.png|The Moustier Family (1947)
 File:Bureau_Program_Cover.jpg|Program Cover (1948)

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 Jules and Anna Glasner were careful not to change what had made the Cirque Bureau's reputation: programs of high quality in a circus that didn't pretend to be something it was not. This basic honesty, which was not always shared by its competitors, was the reason of its continuous success. The Cirque Bureau was not the biggest nor the flashiest, and its owners never amassed a sizeable fortune, but it had always been financially sound, and the best acts didn't hesitate signing contracts with a circus whose business was steady and whose management they could trust.
-The Glasners also brought family members into the fold: the London-born [[Harry Farlow|Armand Harry Farlow]] (1900-1975), who had married Odette Carelli, daughter of Jules Glasner's sister Louise, became the circus's ''régisseur général''&mdash;Jules Glasner's former position. Harry Farlow came from the fairgrounds, where he had managed his own business, but he also proved an able equestrian and often participated in the shows as such. Another addition was Octave De Pessemier, Nelly Ferroni's husband, who assisted the Glasners in the horse department.
+The Glasners also brought family members into the fold: the London-born [[Harry Farlow|Armand Harry Farlow]] (1900-1975), who had married Odette Carelli, daughter of Jules Glasner's sister Louise, became the circus's ''régisseur général''&mdash;Jules Glasner's former position. Harry Farlow came from the fairgrounds, where he had managed his own business, but he also proved an able equestrian and often participated in the shows as such. Another addition was Octave De Pessemier, Nelly Ferroni's husband, and his father, [[Joseph De Pessemier]] (1888–1969), who assisted the Glasners in the horse department.
 That department, however, was the realm of Jules and Anna Glasner, who reigned over a magnificent stable of some thirty horses; the Glasners' ''cavalerie'', trained by Jules Glasner, was the Cirque Bureau's crown jewel. Usually composed of spectacular groups of twelve to eighteen horses, it would often been invited to the Parisian and other resident circuses during the Cirque Bureau's winter recess, presented by either Jules Glasner or Octave De Pessemier (and, after WWII, by [[André Vasserot]]). This, however, didn't prevent the Glasners to hire occasionally other equestrian acts&mdash;like the famous jockey troupe of the [[The Ricono-Sturla Troupe|Ricono-Sturlas]].

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 Then, Joseph Bureau's health began to decline&mdash;to the point that he eventually had to leave the circus and enter a sanatorium in Leysin, in Switzerland, where the circus had been showing in 1909. He died there on November 30, 1911, at age forty-four. Having never married, he had no descendance. The management of the company was left to his brother Paul and his sister, Marguerite Ferroni.
-On July 27, 1913, Anna Tagg-Bureau, co-founder of the circus, passed away in Angouleme (Charente) at age seventy-three. But a happier and momentous event had occurred on February 12 of the same year in Nevers (in the center of France, where the circus was playing): Anneta Ferroni, better known as Anna, Marguerite's daughter, had married the talented animal trainer Jules Glasner (1883-1962).
+On July 27, 1913, Anna Tagg-Bureau, co-founder of the circus, passed away in Angouleme (Charente) at age seventy-three. But a happier and momentous event had occurred on February 12 of the same year in Nevers (in the center of France, where the circus was playing): Anneta Ferroni, better known as Anna, Marguerite's daughter, had married the talented animal trainer [[Jules Glasner]] (1883-1962).
 ===Enter Jules Glasner===

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 File:Bureau_-_Mauricia_de_Thiers.png|Poster featuring Mauricia de Thiers (1904)
 File:Bureau_Cyclone.jpg|Cirque Bureau destroyed by a cyclone (1905)
 File:Jules_Glasner_-_dogs.jpg|Jules Glasner (c.1910)
 File:Bureau_Program_30.jpg|Program Cover (1930)