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 Pancracio became the star of the show. Says Bernard de Fallois, the well-known French author and publisher: "His subtle sense of humor, his physical ability for acrobatics, the features of his face&mdash;which, if you actually look at them carefully, seem to exactly correspond to those of the ideal clown&mdash;all these elements brought the French photographer Edouard Boubat to dedicate to him many of his works as the circus performed in Paris in December of 1970."
-This Paris visit proved important to Fernando: The ''Tout-Paris'' of the Arts feted the Circo de Los Muchachos, and the young Pancracio became the center of attention. There he befriended [[Annie Fratellini]] and [[Pierre Etaix]], and many other French luminaries, and later, he would eventually settle in the French capital. But his international, peripatetic career was not over yet! Pancracio toured with Los Muchachos for about ten years. In 1976, he finally left The Muchachos, and went on a French tour with Annie Fratellini’s [[Nouveau Cirque de Paris]]. The following year, he created his own risley act, ''Los Pancracios'', with which he appeared at [[Circo Price]] in Madrid, Circo [[Rinaldo Orfei]] in Italy, and in many variety shows and nightclubs in Spain.
+This Paris visit proved important to Fernando: The ''Tout-Paris'' of the Arts feted the Circo de Los Muchachos, and the young Pancracio became the center of attention. There he befriended [[Annie Fratellini]] and [[Pierre Etaix]], and many other French luminaries, met his future wife, and later, he would eventually settle in the French capital. But his international, peripatetic career was not over yet! Pancracio toured with Los Muchachos for about ten years. In 1976, he finally left The Muchachos, and went on a French tour with Annie Fratellini’s [[Nouveau Cirque de Paris]]. The following year, he created his own risley act, ''Los Pancracios'', with which he appeared at [[Circo Price]] in Madrid, Circo [[Rinaldo Orfei]] in Italy, and in many variety shows and nightclubs in Spain.
 In 1981, the great Spanish auguste [[José Llata]], who had just ended his association with Manolo Martini ([[Los Martini-Llata]]), asked Fernando and another Spanish auguste, [[Johny Diaz]] to join him and form a new trio, the [[Trio Llata]]. Together, they worked with the Spanish Circus Ringland, of the [[Raluy Family|Raluy]] family, in a tour that took them to Western and Central Africa. At the end of this somewhat grueling adventure, José Llata, who was then sixty-seven years old, decided to retire. The trio disappeared and Fernando, who had married in the interval a French girl, Marie, whom he had met and fell in love with in 1970 when he was with the Muchachos at the Grand Palais, went back to Paris, where he settled definitely in 1983. (Fernando and Marie have two sons, Vladimir and Anton.)

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 It was a fact Fernando couldn’t ignore. When he was in Primary School, the priest who taught him asked Fernando to draw an image of God on the blackboard; Fernando draw a clown. His epiphany eventually came when the [[Circo de los Muchachos]] visited Jerez. Created by a priest, Father Jesús Silva Mendez (1933-2011), the Circo de los Muchachos was an emanation of his Ciudad de los Muchachos (the Children’s City), which he had established in Benposta, near Orense in Galicia, in 1956.
-A remarkable experiment, the Ciudad de los Muchachos was a refuge for destitute children, among whom many orphans, which was entirely run by the kids themselves as a children’s Republic. There was a mayor, a city government, and all the necessary professions were represented, all related activities performed by the children. The only adult in the community was Father Silva. The foremost component of the Ciudad was the ''Escuela Nacional de Circo Los Muchachos'', its circus school&mdash;and its performing arm, the ''Circo de los Muchachos'', which gave the Ciudad an enormous publicity as well as much needed income.
+A remarkable experiment, the Ciudad de los Muchachos was a refuge for destitute children, among whom many orphans, which was entirely run by the kids themselves as a children’s Republic. There was a mayor, a city government, and all the necessary professions were represented, all related activities being performed by the children. The only adult in the community was Father Silva. The foremost component of the Ciudad was the ''Escuela Nacional de Circo Los Muchachos'', its circus school&mdash;and its performing arm, the ''Circo de los Muchachos'', which gave the Ciudad an enormous publicity as well as much needed income.
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 It was a fact Fernando couldn’t ignore. When he was in Primary School, the priest who taught him asked Fernando to draw an image of God on the blackboard; Fernando draw a clown. His epiphany eventually came when the [[Circo de los Muchachos]] visited Jerez. Created by a priest, Father Jesús Silva Mendez (1933-2011), the Circo de los Muchachos was an emanation of his Ciudad de los Muchachos (the Children’s City), which he had established in Benposta, near Orense in Galicia, in 1956.
-A remarkable experiment, the Ciudad de los Muchachos was a refuge for destitute children, among whom many orphans, which was entirely run by the kids themselves as a children’s Republic. There was a mayor, a city government, and all the necessary professions were represented, all performed by the kids. The only adult in the community was Father Silva. The foremost component of the Ciudad was the ''Escuela Nacional de Circo Los Muchachos'', its circus school&mdash;and its performing arm, the ''Circo de los Muchachos'', which gave the Ciudad an enormous publicity as well as much needed income.
+A remarkable experiment, the Ciudad de los Muchachos was a refuge for destitute children, among whom many orphans, which was entirely run by the kids themselves as a children’s Republic. There was a mayor, a city government, and all the necessary professions were represented, all related activities performed by the children. The only adult in the community was Father Silva. The foremost component of the Ciudad was the ''Escuela Nacional de Circo Los Muchachos'', its circus school&mdash;and its performing arm, the ''Circo de los Muchachos'', which gave the Ciudad an enormous publicity as well as much needed income.
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 Pancracio always wanted to be a clown&mdash;an auguste to be specific&mdash;even before he saw his first circus. This dream was ingrained in him as a child; as he would say later, reflecting on his long and successful career, "''El payaso nace, no se hace''" (“One doesn’t become a clown, one is born a clown”), a truism that has been uttered indeed by many a great clown.
-He was born Fernando Alvarez on July 29, 1955 in Jerez de la Frontera in the Province of Cádiz in Andalusia, in the Southern tip of Spain&mdash;a city famous worldwide for its sherry wine. Circus in Spain, during Fernando’s childhood, was at a peak, and it produced an array of extremely talented clowns who were stars in their own right: [[Pompoff y Thedy]], [[Emy, Goti y Cañamon]],the [[The Andreu-Rivels|Andreu Rivels]], [[Ramper]], [[Popey]], [[Los Hermanos Tonetti]], among many others.
+He was born Fernando Alvarez on July 29, 1955 in Jerez de la Frontera in the Province of Cádiz in Andalusia, in the Southern tip of Spain&mdash;a city famous worldwide for its sherry wine. Circus in Spain, during Fernando’s childhood, was at a peak, and it produced an array of extremely talented clowns who were stars in their own right: [[Pompoff y Thedy]], [[Emy, Goti y Cañamon]], the [[The Andreu-Rivels|Andreu Rivels]], [[Ramper]], [[Popey]], [[Los Hermanos Tonetti]], among many others.
 It was a fact Fernando couldn’t ignore. When he was in Primary School, the priest who taught him asked Fernando to draw an image of God on the blackboard; Fernando draw a clown. His epiphany eventually came when the [[Circo de los Muchachos]] visited Jerez. Created by a priest, Father Jesús Silva Mendez (1933-2011), the Circo de los Muchachos was an emanation of his Ciudad de los Muchachos (the Children’s City), which he had established in Benposta, near Orense in Galicia, in 1956.

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 This Paris visit proved important to Fernando: The ''Tout-Paris'' of the Arts feted the Circo de Los Muchachos, and the young Pancracio became the center of attention. There he befriended [[Annie Fratellini]] and [[Pierre Etaix]], and many other French luminaries, and later, he would eventually settle in the French capital. But his international, peripatetic career was not over yet! Pancracio toured with Los Muchachos for about ten years. In 1976, he finally left The Muchachos, and went on a French tour with Annie Fratellini’s [[Nouveau Cirque de Paris]]. The following year, he created his own risley act, ''Los Pancracios'', with which he appeared at [[Circo Price]] in Madrid, Circo [[Rinaldo Orfei]] in Italy, and in many variety shows and nightclubs in Spain.
-In 1981, the great Spanish auguste [[José Llata]], who had just ended his association with Manolo Martini ([[Los Martini-Llata]]), asked Fernando and another Spanish auguste, [[Johny Diaz]] to join him and form a new trio, the [[Trio Llata]]. Together, they worked with the Spanish Circus Ringland, of the [[Raluy Family|Raluy]] family, in a tour that took them to Western and Central Africa. At the end of this somewhat grueling tour, José Llata, who was then sixty-seven years old, decided to retire. The trio disappeared and Fernando, who had married in the interval a French girl, Marie, whom he had met and fell in love with in 1970 when he was with the Muchachos at the Grand Palais, went back to Paris, where he settled definetly in 1983.
+In 1981, the great Spanish auguste [[José Llata]], who had just ended his association with Manolo Martini ([[Los Martini-Llata]]), asked Fernando and another Spanish auguste, [[Johny Diaz]] to join him and form a new trio, the [[Trio Llata]]. Together, they worked with the Spanish Circus Ringland, of the [[Raluy Family|Raluy]] family, in a tour that took them to Western and Central Africa. At the end of this somewhat grueling adventure, José Llata, who was then sixty-seven years old, decided to retire. The trio disappeared and Fernando, who had married in the interval a French girl, Marie, whom he had met and fell in love with in 1970 when he was with the Muchachos at the Grand Palais, went back to Paris, where he settled definitely in 1983. (Fernando and Marie have two sons, Vladimir and Anton.)
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