GREAT HORSEWOMEN OF THE 19TH CENTURY IN THE CIRCUS: and an Epilogue on Four Contemporary Écuyeres: Catherine Durand Henriquet, Eloise Schwarz King, Géraldine Katharina Knie, and Katja Schumann Binder

GREAT HORSEWOMEN OF THE 19TH CENTURY IN THE CIRCUS: and an Epilogue on Four Contemporary Écuyeres: Catherine Durand Henriquet, Eloise Schwarz King, Géraldine Katharina Knie, and Katja Schumann Binder"Circus was quite a serious thing in nineteenth and early twentieth century Europe. Edmond and Jules de Goncourt noted in their Journal "We go to only one theater the Circus. There we see clowns, tumblers. there is no false exhibition of talent" Balzac believed that a circus equestrienne was worth more respect than an actress, a prima ballerina or an opera prima donna. And indeed, equestrians were the kings of the circus and equestriennes, its