Livry, Emma

Livry, Emma (October 1842, Paris; 26 July 1863, Paris), ballerina, was the natural daughter of Célestine Emarot , a danseuse at the Opéra, and baron Charles de Chassiron , a member of the Jockey Club. She attended a girls’ school in Paris and enrolled in Mme Dominique ’s dancing classes as a young child. After her father had broken off with her mother, she was fortunate enough to find a strong protector at the Opéra in the person of her mother’s second lover, the powerful Viscount Ferdinand de…