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See also: Spanish descent, was See also: born in Brussels on the 15th of See also: April 1710
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Her See also: father, See also: Ferdinand
See also: Joseph de Cupis, earned a scanty living as violinist and dancing-master, and from childhood she was trained for the stage
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At ten years of 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
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Under her grandmother's See also: family name of Camargo she made her Paris debut in 1726, and at once became the rage
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Every new fashion See also: bore her name; her manner of doing her hair was copied by all at See also: court; her shoemaker—she had a tiny foot—made his See also: fortune
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She had many titled adorers whom she nearly ruined by her extravagances, among others See also: Louis de Bourbon, comte de Clermont
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At his wish she retired from the stage from 1736 to 1741
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In her
See also: time she appeared in seventy-eight ballets or operas, always to the delight of the public
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She was the first See also: ballet-dancer to shorten the skirt to what afterwards became the regulation length
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There is a charming portrait of her by Nicolas See also: Lancret in the See also: Wallace collection, See also: London
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