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MARIE ANNE DE CUPIS DE CAMARGO (1710-...

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 80 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 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 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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