Émilie Bigottini, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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ballet dancer, Opéra de Paris (1801-1823)
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Place of Birth: Toulouse, Occitania, France
About Émilie Bigottini
- Émilie Bigottini (16 April 1784, Toulouse - 28 April 1858, Paris) was a French dancer of Italian ancestry. The daughter of Francesco Bigottini, a famous harlequin at Paris's Comédie-Italienne, she joined the Opéra ballet at age 17 and led its company until her retirement in 1823, distinguishing herself in the ballets of Louis Milon.
- Napoleon I of France was one of her fervent admirers.
- Despite her numerous liaisons, she escaped the reputation for immorality which afflicted most of her contemporaries in the dance world.
- She was considered as an example of good artistic taste, svelte, precise and excelling in mime. She had several children, all out of wedlock: a daughter with Gérard Christophe Michel Duroc, duke of Frioul; a daughter, Armandine Alphonsine Pignatelli d'Aragon Bigottini, born in Paris on April 10, 1807.
- The child's father, the prince Pignatelli, eventually recognized her.
- Armandine married Alphonse Daloz in 1827, and had two children; she died in Créteil on August 11, 1833. a son, François Jean Charles, born in Paris on August 27, 1815.
- The child was conceived during the Congress of Vienna and his father presumed to be an Austrian count.
- (Bigottini had accompanied Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord to Vienna in 1814.)
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