Images of Henri Adolphe Franconi a circus performer who specialized in working with horses and from the circus he ran. Living from 1801 to 1855 he succeeded his father as managing director of the Cirque-Olympique at the age of 26 where he had a fatal heart attack in 1855.

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Female performer, recueil sur exercices des Franconi au Cirque Olympique. Early 19th c. Image © BnF Gallica/Bibliothèque nationale de France. Fair use license. via https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53072808p/f1.item.r=Laurent%20Franconi
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Henri Adolphe Franconi. Scottish. 1844. Watercolor. Jemima Blackburn, artist (1823-1909). Image © National Portrait Gallery, London. Fair use license. via https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw09954/Henri-Adolphe-Franconi
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Franconi performing. No date. In the public domain due to age. via https://alchetron.com/Antonio-Franconi#antonio-franconi-68724e7b-aaa2-4103-8534-3c7e136875c-resize-750.jpeg
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Laurent Franconi performs in Paris. Standing on one leg on the back of his black horse, he canters around the outdoor ring. ca. 1805. In the public domain due to age. via https://fineartamerica.com/featured/laurent-franconi-performs-in-paris-mary-evans-picture-library.html

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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