Legallois, Amélie-Marie-Antoinette
(*1804)> BALLERINA
Legallois, Amélie-Marie-Antoinette (1804, Paris; ?), ballerina, made her first stage appearance at age four or five in Jean Aumer’s Les Amours d’Antoine et de Cléopâtre (1808), where she was cast as one of the hero’s children by Octavie (see eighteenth-century volume for Aumer and Les Amours d’Antoine et de Cléopâtre ). Unaffected by this experience, she took her first lessons in ballet at the dancing school supported by the Opéra. She completed her program here in time to make her mature debut…