Fonta, Laure

Fonta, Laure (1845; Paris, ?), ballerina, née Laure Poinet, suffered from a nervous ailment as a child, and her doctors advised her to study dancing to help eliminate this condition. She entered the ballet school affiliated with the Imperial Academy of Music, therefore, and became a pupil of Lucien Petipa . She completed her studies and joined the corps de ballet at the Opéra, where she was scheduled to make her debut as Daphné in Zara . This work was dropped on account of the tragic death by…