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Louise Fiocre |
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Eugenie Fiocre |
The Beautiful Fiocre Sisters, Louise and Eugenie
were among the principal attractions of the Paris Opera in the
glamorous days of the second empire, when the aristocratic, somewhat
blasé members of the Jocket Club were arbiters of taste and
style. They disapproved of heavy German Opera and Ballets given
early in the evening, for they liked to linger over dinner, so
they saw to it that Tanhauser was a failure in Paris.
They loved to see the well rounded
legs of Louise Fiocre in her brief costume of a cupid, so they
encouraged the management to cast her in such roles as this Amour,
which she played when Pierre de Medicis was produced in 1860.
Louise was seventeen, and already the veteran of four
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at the Opera. Her career was short, in spite of its early beginning;
she retired in 1868, at twenty five.
Her younger sister Eugenie, endowed with even
a more magnificent figure, appeared to such advantage in the sleek
tights of a boy that she was chosen to create the role of Franz
at the first performance of Coppelia, in 1870. It is strange to
think that her beauty actually contributed to the temporary eclipse
of ballet as an art form, late in the nineteenth century, by furthering
the unfortunate practice of girls dancing men's roles, in travesti.
Edgar
Degas also did a oil painting entitled 'Mlle. Fiocre in the Ballet'
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b.1843-19?? |
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1860
- Pierre de Medicis (B) |
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1867
- La Source (B) Delibes |
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1870
- Coppelia (B) Delibes |
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Degas |
1953
- the Second Empire (Ivor Guest) |
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12/1953
- The Dance Magazine |
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