Camargo, Marie-Anne de Cupis de (15 April 1710, Brussels; 28 April 1770, Paris), ballerina, was the daughter of an inept violinist who developed his daughter’s precocious aptitude for dancing to the point where a group of ladies headed by the princess de Ligne at the Belgian Court resolved to send her to Paris to study under Mlle Prévost (see seventeenth-century volume for Mlle Prévost.) Although she was only a child of ten, she returned to Brussels within a short time to dance in the opera…