Circus Franconi in France

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Circus Franconi
Local name	Cirque Franconi, Cirque Olympique
Type	circus
Place	Paris
Country	France
Related persons
Owner	-1836: Antonio Franconi 1836-: Henri Franconi 1836-: Minette Franconi

Zoological department
Animal trainers
-1801: Jacques Tourniaire

Equestrians
: Pauline Hinné

Elephant department

Elephant Trainer	1844-: Luigi Guillaume 1812-: Laurent Franconi

Record history
History of updates	2024-12-09: text

Latest document update	2024-12-10 10:10:52

Description

Circus Franconi, in Paris, France .

Comments / picturesCircus Franconi in Paris may have been the first circus exhibiting an elephant doing tricks.

Philip Astley impressed Louis XV with the horses, acrobats, jugglers and clowns he brought to Versailles in 1782. Astley and his sons would go on to build the Amphithéâtre Anglais, located where the Place de la Republique is today.

During the French Revolution, the master of Astley’s birds, Antonio Franconi (1737 in Venice, Italy - 1836 in Paris, France), leased the theatre from his employer and Franconi’s Cirque Olympique became the first French circus. Franconi and his sons made many improvements to their theatre, including setting the diameter of the circus ring at 13m, which remains the standard to this day.

Franconis sons Henri and Minette took over the Circus 1836 after their fathers death.

Elephant trainer 1812 was Laurent Franconi, (died same year as his brother Henri-1849), son to the owner of the circus.
Henris son Henri Narcisse Franconi was frontname for the Franconi’s Hippodrome which opened in New York on May 2, 1953

In 1844 Miss Baba was part of the show of the Cirque Olympique in Paris presented by the company of Luigi Guillaume.
Circus Franconi in France France

Luigi Guillaume

References for records about Circus Franconi

Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2025). Circus Franconi, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=1466. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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