Duport, Louis (1781, Paris; October 1853, Paris), dancer, danced in ballets on the stages of the Gaîté and Ambigu-Comique theatres in Paris as early as 1800, but his ability attracted attention before long, and he was invited to join the corps de ballet at the Opéra. Here the young dancer had to execute the role of Zéphyre in Psyché one evening without notice on account of the sudden illness of the scheduled performer. He did so well that he became the toast of the capital, and Auguste Vestris…