Gosselin aînée
(1791–1817)> BALLERINA
Gosselin aînée (1791, Paris; 1817, Paris), ballerina, the elder Gosselin, called Geneviève, studied ballet at the school attached to the Paris Opéra. Her principal teachers were Jean-François Coulon and Guimard. She made her debut at the Opéra in the second act of La Caravane du Caire on 8 August 1809, and a week later on 16 August she performed again in the third act of La Vestale. Her third billing of the year was in Pierre-Gabriel Gardel’s La Dansomanie on 17 September 1809. Gosselin was…