Fabbri, Flora
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Fabbri, Flora (?, Florence; ?), ballerina, made her debut at the Fenice theatre in Venice and danced in Rome and Bologna before coming to Paris. Her decision to leave Italy was prompted by her marriage to the French choreographer Louis Bertin in 1842, and she was accepted into the corps de ballet of the Opéra in 1845. She remained with the company until 1851, and she managed to establish herself as a leading ballerina at the Opéra in this era of Mlles Francesca Cerrito, Caronne Grisi, and…