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 File:Medrano_Poster_1942.jpeg|Cirque Medrano poster featuring Andrée Marcoud (1942)
 File:Andree_Marcoud.jpg|Andrée Marcoud (c.1945)

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 Image:Maryse_Begary_at_Cirque_d'Hiver.jpg|Maryse Begary at the Cirque d'Hiver (1950)
 Image:Maryse_Begary_(Promotional_Picture).jpg|Maryse Begary (c.1950)
 Image:Begary_at_Medrano_(c.1960).jpg|Maryse Begary (c.1960)
 Image:Maryse_Begary_%2B_Ed_Sullivan_(1962).jpg|Maryse Begary and Ed Sullivan (1962)

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 ===From Andrée Marcoud to Maryse Begary===
-Andrée Marcoud quickly made a name for herself: Her handstand on her trapeze bar didn’t fail to impress circus professionals and aficionados, and her act continued to improve over the years. [[Image:Maryse_Begary_(Promotional_Picture).jpg|thumb|left|300px|Maryse Begary]]
+Andrée Marcoud quickly made a name for herself: Her handstand on her trapeze bar didn’t fail to impress circus professionals and aficionados, and her act continued to improve over the years. [[File:Andree_Marcoud.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Andrée Marcoud (c.1945)]]
 After the German occupation of France during World War II, Andrée was featured in 1946 (and again in 1950) at Paris’s (and the world's) oldest permanent circus, the [[Cirque d’Hiver]]. The following year, she went on tour with the French Cirque Figuier under her real name, Andrée Auclère: Raymonde Marcoud, Nicolas Marcoud’s niece, was also performing at that time, and Andrée didn’t want to create any confusion.
 That same year, 1947, Andrée married Franz Begary, a former pilot in the French Air Force who had just left the military. Andrée Marcoud-Auclère finally became Andrée Begary, and changed her first name for the more romantic Maryse. It is under that name, Maryse Begary, that she continued her career&mdash;thus confusing a few circus chroniclers and historians: Andrée Marcoud and Maryse Begary are sometimes mentioned as "the two only aerialists" who, after the creator of the trick, [[Miss Fillis]] (Nicolas Marcoud's daughter), were able to hold a handstand on their trapeze bar! Franz Begary became Maryse’s assistant and manager, a marital partnership that would last until Maryse’s death.

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 File:Medrano_Poster_1942.jpeg|Cirque Medrano poster featuring Andrée Marcoud (1942)
 Image:Maryse_Begary_at_Cirque_d'Hiver.jpg|Maryse Begary at the Cirque d'Hiver (1950)
 Image:Maryse_Begary_(Promotional_Picture).jpg|Maryse Begary (c.1950)

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 File:Medrano_Poster_1942.jpeg|Cirque Medrano poster featuring Andrée Marcoud (1942)
 Image:Maryse_Begary_at_Cirque_d'Hiver.jpg|Maryse Begary at the Cirque d'Hiver (1950)
-Image:Maryse_Begary_(Promotional_Picture).jpg|Maryse Begary (c.1960)
+Image:Maryse_Begary_(Promotional_Picture).jpg|Maryse Begary (c.1950)
 Image:Begary_at_Medrano_(c.1960).jpg|Maryse Begary (c.1960)
 Image:Maryse_Begary_%2B_Ed_Sullivan_(1962).jpg|Maryse Begary and Ed Sullivan (1962)

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 ===American Years===
-[[Image:Maryse_Begary_%2B_Ed_Sullivan_(1962).jpg|thumb|right|300px|Maryse and Ed Sullivan (1962)]]In 1958 and 1959 Maryse Begary was in the United States with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus, the featured performer of a spectacular aerial ballet, ''Captivating Clown Cavalcade'' in 1958, and ''Ballet of the Buccaneers'' in 1959, in which she did her rotating one-arm planges above the center ring, surrounded by thirty-two aerial showgirls. (The circus’s printed program, which had become over the years notorious for its frequent misspelling of performers’ names, announced her in 1958 as "Maryse Begare;" her name was correctly spelled in 1959.)
+[[Image:Maryse_Begary_%2B_Ed_Sullivan_(1962).jpg|thumb|right|300px|Maryse and Ed Sullivan (1962)]]In 1958 and 1959 Maryse Begary was in the United States with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus, the featured performer of spectacular aerial ballets, ''Captivating Clown Cavalcade'' in 1958, and ''Ballet of the Buccaneers'' in 1959, in which she did her rotating one-arm planges above the center ring, surrounded by thirty-two aerial showgirls. (The circus’s printed program, which had become over the years notorious for its frequent misspelling of performers’ names, announced her in 1958 as "Maryse Begare;" her name was correctly spelled in 1959.)
 Maryse would eventually settle in Sarasota, Florida, home of a great number of circus performers, but she returned to Europe at the end of her first American engagement to join the company of ''Le Cirque Français'', a French circus troupe that was heading for Leningrad and Moscow&mdash;the first circus from the Western World to appear in the Soviet Union. In the winter 1960-1961, Maryse Begary performed with great success at the old [[Circus Ciniselli|Circus on the Fontanka]] in Leningrad (today St. Petersburg), and at the [[Circus Nikulin|Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard]] in Moscow.