Their audiences regularly numbered into the thousands and included entertainers such as Marlene Dietrich, Ingrid Bergman and Josephine Baker, who gave Ms. Bouglione costume suggestions, as well as French politicians including Vincent Auriol and Georges Pompidou. Maria Callas, the famed opera singer, was once nearly flattened by a “jealous” elephant, Ms. Bouglione said, when she came too close to Joseph Bouglione after a show. “I’ve always, always been with lions, with panthers, with wolves, with hyenas,” Ms. Bouglione told the Associated Press in 2014. Joseph Bouglione died in 1987. According to her family, Ms. Bouglione is survived by 55 children and grandchildren.

Source: Washington Post October 01, 2018 00:58 UTC