Coulon, Antoine
(1796–1849)> DANCER
Coulon, Antoine (1796, Paris; 1849), dancer, studied ballet with his father, Jean-François, and made his debut at the Opéra in the divertissement of Anacréon , and his performances were so effective that he was cast next in the male lead of Paul et Virginie, but it was not until the 1817 revival of Fernand Cortez that he began to play an important part in the production of ballets at the Opéra (see eighteenth-century volume for Jean-François Coulon , Anacréon. Paul et Virginie, and Fernand…