Duvernay, Yolande Marie Louise
(1813–1894)> BALLERINA
Duvernay, Yolande Marie Louise , DITE Pauline (1813, Paris; 2 September 1894, Nottingham), ballerina, danced for only five years at a time when Franziska Elssler and Marie Taglioni were striving for supremacy between themselves, and the conflict between the two stars was attracting the almost undivided attention of balletomanes. In fact, she made her Paris debut almost immediately after Taglioni danced La Sylphide on 12 March 1832 and her London debut when the Elssler sisters had just opened…