See also:MARIE See also:ANNE DE CUPIS DE See also:CAMARGO (1710-1770)
, See also:French dancer, of See also:Spanish descent, was See also:born in See also:Brussels on the 15th of See also:April 1710
.
Her See also:father, See also:Ferdinand See also:Joseph de Cupis, earned a scanty living as violinist and dancing-See also:master, and from childhood she was trained for the See also:stage
.
At ten years of See also:age she was given lessons by Mlle Francoise See also:Prevost (168o-1741), then the first dancer at the See also:Paris See also:Opera, and at once obtained an engagement as premiere danseuse, first at Brussels and then at See also:Rouen
.
Under her grandmother's See also:family name of See also:Camargo she made her Paris debut in 1726, and at once became the rage
.
Every new See also:fashion See also:bore her name; her manner of doing her See also:hair was copied by all at See also:court; her shoemaker—she had a tiny See also:foot—made his See also:fortune
.
She had many titled adorers whom she nearly ruined by her extravagances, among others See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis de See also:Bourbon, See also:comte de Clermont
.
At his wish she retired from the stage from 1736 to 1741
.
In her See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time she appeared in seventy-eight ballets or operas, always to the delight of the public
.
She was the first See also:ballet-dancer to shorten the skirt to what afterwards became the regulation length
.
There is a charming portrait of her by See also:Nicolas See also:Lancret in the See also:Wallace collection, See also:London
.
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