Madame Saqui
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Madame Saqui (born Marguerite-Antoinette Lalanne on February 26, 1786; February 21, 1886) 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.[1] In her day she was something of a celebrity and is mentioned in Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray.
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