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Charles Blondin (born Jean François Gravelet, 28 February 1824 – 22 February 1897) was a French tightrope walker and acrobat. He toured the United States and was known for crossing the 1,100 ft (340 m) Niagara Gorge on a tightrope.
Australian media nicknamed him "the Australian Blondin", [3] a reference to the well-known French tightrope walker Charles Blondin. He entertained his audiences by walking on a tightrope without pole and blindfolded, and even with heavy ladies from the audience who accepted to be carried by him on the rope. [3]
Charles Blondin carrying Colcord on a tightrope Engraving (c. 1883 of Blondin crossing Niagara with his manager, Harry Colcord, on his back. Harry M. Colcord was the manager of the distinguished stuntman Charles Blondin, most famous for being possibly the first person to go across the Niagara Falls by piggyback on another person, in this case Blondin, on August 17, 1859.
Henri L'Estrange, known as the Australian Blondin, was an Australian successful funambulist and accident-prone aeronautical balloonist. [1] Modelling himself on the famous French wire-walker Charles Blondin, L'Estrange performed a number of tightrope walks in the 1870s, culminating in three walks across Sydney's Middle Harbour in 1877.
She was advertised as Madam Blondin. [1] Pauline Violante at Cremorne Gardens. Her career ended at Highbury Barn, which was a pleasure resort that operated in Islington between 1861 and 1871. [3] She was performing amongst a firework display when she fell fifty feet from a tight rope onto gravel on 14 August 1862.
A blondin at Stoney Stanton quarry, showing the cableway crossing a deep pit. At the top right a wagon is suspended from the cradle, ready to be lowered to the quarry floor. Blondins were developed by John Fyfe, a Scottish quarry engineer. He installed the first example in 1872 at Kemnay granite quarry at Garioch. In 1896, John M. Henderson and ...
Blondin is a surname of French origin, literally meaning a person with blond hair. It may refer to: Antoine Blondin, French writer; Charles Blondin, French tightrope walker; Denis Blondin, Canadian anthropologist and writer; Ester Blondin, founder of College Marie Anne; Ethel Blondin-Andrew, Canadian politician; Fred Blondin , French singer and ...
The acrobat and tightrope walker Charles Blondin was best known for his crossing of Niagara Falls on a tightrope. Blondin retired to live in Northfields from 1886 until his death in 1897 in a house on the site of what is now Niagara House, opposite The Plough pub on Northfield Avenue. [4]