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 File:Henny,_Nello,_%26_Freddy_Bario.jpeg|Freddy, Henny & Nello Bario (c.1980)
 File:Bario_Television.jpeg|Les Bario on television (1981)
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 File:Les_Bario.jpg|Nello, Henny & Freddy Bario (c.1970)
 File:Bario-Jean_Richard_Poster.jpeg|Cirque Jean Richard Poster featuring Les Bario (1971)
-File:Bario_Cleopatre.jpg|Freddy, Nello and Henny Bario in ''Cleopatra'' (1976)
+File:Bario_Cleopatre.jpg|Freddy, Nello and Henny Bario in ''Cléopâtre'' (1976)
 File:Bario_Davy_Crockett.jpg|Nello, Freddy and Henny Bario in ''Davy Crockett'' (1976)
 File:Bario_-_Cleopatre.jpg|Nello, Freddy and Henny Bario in ''Cléopâtre'' (1976)

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 File:Bario_Cleopatre.jpg|Freddy, Nello and Henny Bario in ''Cleopatra'' (1976)
 File:Bario_Davy_Crockett.jpg|Nello, Freddy and Henny Bario in ''Davy Crockett'' (1976)
 File:Nouveau_Cirque_Jean-Richard_-_Bario.jpeg|Poster for the Nouveau Cirque Jean Richard featuring Les Bario (1976)
 File:Albert_Rancy_-_Bario.jpg|Cirque Albert Rancy Poster featuring Les Bario (1979)

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 Following Papa Bario’s death in June of 1974, the Barios worked mostly on television, and during the summer, on tours of the French seaside resorts with the [[Cirque Spirou]] and other similar circuses. They made their final public appearance in the spring of 1988 at the Mondial Circus of the [[The Rech Family|Rech Family]], with which they had done their summer tour, and which was set up in Paris, at the Porte Maillot. Freddy, who had been recently diagnosed with lung cancer, was already very weak; he died a short time later, on July 10, 1988, at age sixty-six. The Trio Bario disappeared with him.
-Although Nello himself had surgery for a cancerous tumor in 1986 (and had been cured), he survived his brother for ten years. He passed away on December 8, 1999, at age eighty-one. (Nello married Amélie Gineston (1918-1998) on February 15, 1945; they had two daughters, Nadine and Ivane.) After Freddy’s death, Henny continued to work with various partners, among whom her son, the musician and bandleader [[Tony Bario]] (1954-2007), her daughter Betty (Beatrix), and her nephew Willy Dario. She was also featured in the show ''Achille Tonic'', with the popular French comedians Dino & Shirley in 1999.
+Although Nello himself had surgery for a cancerous tumor in 1986 (and had been cured), he survived his brother for ten years. He passed away on December 8, 1999, at age eighty-one. Nello had married Amélie Gineston (1918-1998) on February 15, 1945; they had two daughters, Nadine and Ivane. After Freddy’s death, Henny continued to work with various partners, among whom her son, the musician and bandleader [[Tony Bario]] (1954-2007), her daughter Betty (Beatrix), and her nephew Willy Dario. She was also featured in the show ''Achille Tonic'', with the popular French comedians Dino & Shirley in 1999.
 In 2002, as Henny was on her way to Lyon for a series of performances, she suffered from a brain hemorrhage; she recovered, but this accident put an end to her performing career. Henny Bario, the last surviving member of the legendary trio, finally passed away on a Christmas Eve, December 24, 2011, at the Hospital of Bobigny (the Paris suburb where she lived); she had suffered another brain hemorrhage. It was heartbreaking news for all those who, for thirty years, had loved and admired the Barios&mdash;and they were indeed countless!

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 File:Dario-Bario_Co.jpg|The Dario-Barios, with Nello at far right (c.1940)
 File:Willy_Dario_and_Nello_Bario.jpg|Nello Bario (left) and Willy Dario (1943)

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 Although they had signed for the beginning of the 1948 season with the [[The Bouglione Family|Cirque Bouglione]], Dario Meschi notified his brother, Bario, that he was retiring from performing. Yet Papa Bario (as Bario Meschi was affectionately called in the business) wanted to carry on; he therefore decided to form his own clown act, and approached his sons for this purpose. After some hesitation, Nello and Freddy accepted; the new clown quartet was made of Freddy as the clown, Papa Bario as the auguste, Nello as the second auguste, and Henny as the straight man (or more accurately, straight woman)&mdash;and later as a third auguste.
-After the inevitable period of trial and error, the new team began to receive contracts from the most prestigious circuses in Europe, among which Paris’s Cirque Medrano, Brussels’ [[Cirque Royal (Brussels)|Cirque Royal]], Budapest’s [[Fővárosi Nagycirkusz]], [[Circus Strassburger]] in The Netherlands, [[Cirkus Schumann]] in Denmark and Sweden, and [[Circus Knie]] in Switzerland. They resurrected the Dario-Barios’ classic repertoire, such as ''The Eggs'', ''The Water Buckets'', and ''Il Trovatore''.
+After the inevitable period of trial and error, the new team began to receive contracts from the most prestigious circuses in Europe, among which Paris’s Cirque Medrano, Brussels’ [[Cirque Royal (Brussels)|Cirque Royal]], Budapest’s [[Fővárosi Nagycirkusz]], [[Circus Strassburger]] in The Netherlands, [[Cirkus Schumann]] in Denmark and Sweden, and [[Circus Knie]] in Switzerland. They resurrected the Dario-Barios’ classic repertoire, such as ''The Eggs'', ''The Water Buckets'', and ''Il Troviatore''.
 When performing at Cirque Medrano in February of 1952, Freddy was seen as a fanciful clown, able to lead his partners efficiently. Alongside Papa Bario, who had an oversized comic power (and had originated the "pochard"&mdash;a colorful drunk&mdash;type, which inspired several generations of augustes), Nello’s gangly, scatterbrained character found naturally his place. As for Henny, who had created for herself a female character with round spectacles and long braids, she added a touch of originality that brought the quartet a special quality: The critic of the French daily L’Humanité, Tristan Rémy&mdash;who was also a great clown chronicler and historian&mdash;noted that Henny was "at once the most mischievous and the most artist of all young upcoming female clowns."

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 In 1938, the Dario-Barios were in England, at Blackpool’s [[Tower Circus]]. Nello took advantage of the occasion to learn tap-dancing, of which English audiences were particularly fond, luring along his siblings, Freddy and Tosca. Nello was twenty, and it was time for him to consider his future; he didn’t see himself playing forever third banana to his father’s act. With Freddy and Tosca, Nello decided to build a musical and tap-dancing comedy act intended for the variety stage, which they would name “The Bario Juniors.”
-Nello, Freddy, and Tosca put together their new act in 1939, during an engagement of the Dario-Bario troupe with the Cirque Franco-Belge in Roubaix, in France’s North region. Unfortunately, on September 1st of that year, WWII began and the German Army invaded France. After the signature of the Armistice between France and Germany on June 22, 1940, France fell under German occupation. [[Circus Busch|Paula Busch]], whose German circus empire was Europe’s largest, was offered by the German authorities the running of Paris’s two circuses, [[Cirque Medrano (Paris)|Medrano]] and the [[Cirque d’Hiver]].
+Nello, Freddy, and Tosca put together their new act in 1939, during an engagement of the Dario-Bario troupe with the Cirque Franco-Belge in Roubaix, in France’s North region. Unfortunately, on September 1st of that year, World War II began and the German Army invaded France. After the signature of the armistice between France and Germany on June 22, 1940, France fell under German occupation. [[Circus Busch|Paula Busch]], whose German circus empire was Europe’s largest, was offered by the German authorities the running of Paris’s two circuses, [[Cirque Medrano (Paris)|Medrano]] and the [[Cirque d’Hiver]].
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