Eugénie Fiocre was a French ballet dancer and dancer, born in 1845 in Paris, who died in 1908.
Biography
Eugénie Fiocre (b. Paris, 2 July 1845, d. 1908) was a principal dancer at the Paris Opéra 1864–75 where she often danced en travesti, creating Frantz in Coppélia in 1870, and, renowned for her beauty, was sculpted by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux and painted by Degas in a scene from Saint-Léon's ballet La Source. She was married to Stanislas Le Compasseur de Créqui-Montfort Marquis de Courtivron and mother of explorer, anthropologist, diplomat and Olympian Georges de Crequi-Montfort.
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Contemporaries
Marie Sanlaville
leading dancer with the Paris Opéra (1847-1930)
Emma Livry
French ballet dancer (1841-1863)
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