Madame Saqui, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French tightrope walker
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Place of Birth: Agde, Occitania, France
About Madame Saqui
- Madame Saqui (born Marguerite-Antoinette Lalanne on February 26, 1786 in Agde, Hérault ; February 21, 1866) was a noted French tightrope walker or "rope dancer." For a time she had her own theatre, which she had re-decorated.
- She continued to perform into her seventies.
- In her day, she was something of a celebrity and is mentioned in the novel Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray. In 1907, the French journalist Paul Ginisty wrote her biography: Mémoires d'un danseuse de corde : Mme Saqui (1786-1866).
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