Madame Saqui (born Marguerite-Antoinette Lalanne on February 26, 1786 in Agde, Hérault ; February 21, 1866) was a noted French tightrope walker or "rope...

Napoleon's decree on the theatres, it became the Café d'Apollon. Théâtre de Madame Saqui (1816) Théâtre du Temple (1832, a vaudeville house run by Roux, dit Dorsay)...

sometimes at Madame Saqui's theater and more often again at the Théâtre Comte, but also in the provinces. Paul Ginisty, in a biography of Madame Saqui dating...

2023-05-03. Becoming a Good Creature. Kirkus Reviews. Madame Saqui. Kirkus Reviews. "Madame Saqui: Revolutionary Rope Dancer by Lisa Robinson". Publishers...

Royal Musselburgh Golf Club, Scotland. 1816 – French tightrope walker Madame Saqui performed in England to celebrate the opening of Vauxhall Bridge. After...

Léotard, 19th century Acrobatic performer who developed the art of trapeze Madame Saqui, 19th century popular funambulist Mathieu Ganio, Danseur Étoile of the...

boulevard du Temple, operated from 1804 to 1806. On 12 December 1816, Madame Saqui, the tightrope-walker (or 'dancer') bought the Café d'Apollon, site of...

nineteenth centuries was a rope-dancer and sometimes, as in the case of Madame Saqui, a mime. But by the late nineteenth century, the word would have conjured...

Walstein - Alais, J. - V&A Search the Collections". 10 January 1815. "Madame Saqui, or Marguerite-Antoinette Lalanne (1876-1866) performing on the Tightrope...

Joseph had moved to Paris where he was hired as an acrobat and actor for Madame Saqui's troupe. Joseph was one of the many immigrants who had left Haiti in...