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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.
The following is a chronological list of French artists working in visual or plastic media (plus, for some artists of the 20th century, performance art). For alphabetical lists, see the various subcategories of Category:French artists. See other articles for information on French literature, French music, French cinema and French culture.
Charles Lebayle (1856–1898) Charles Le Brun (1619–1690) Claude Lefebvre (1633–1675) Fernand Léger (1881–1955) Amélie Legrand of Saint-Aubin (1797-1878) Anne-Louise Le Jeuneux (died 1794) Le Nain brothers (c. 1599–1677) Louis Le Nain (1593–1648) Charles-Amable Lenoir (1860–1926) Jean Paul Leon (born 1955) Eugène Lepoittevin ...
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.
In 1863, he debuted as a trapeze artist, and by 1866 he decided to focus on tightrope walking. [1] 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 ...
The organisation organises artists' residences by British and French artists and hosts exhibitions. She is also secretary of the Blondin Memorial Trust , dedicated to the memory of the tightrope walker Charles Blondin .
24 June - Battle of Solferino, French-Sardinian victory. 30 June - Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope for the first time. 12 July - Armistice of Villafranca ends the Second Italian War of Independence. 24 November - The French Navy's La Gloire ("Glory"), the first ocean-going ironclad warship in history, is launched.
December 2 – Georges Seurat, French painter (d. 1891) December 5 – John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, British admiral (d. 1935) December 15 – L. L. Zamenhof, Polish creator of Esperanto (d. 1917) December 17 – Paul César Helleu, French artist (d. 1927) December 17 – Wilmer W. MacElree, American lawyer and author (d. 1960)