Émilie Bigottini

Émilie Bigottini ( born April 16, 1784 in Toulouse, † April 28, 1858 in Paris) was a French dancer.

Life

The daughter of François Bigottini, a famous Comédie- Italienne in Paris Harlequin, joined at the age of seventeen years in the Paris Opera and dominated the troupe of the Ballet de l' Opéra de Paris under the Consulate, the Empire and the Restoration over a period of more than two decades until she sat down in 1823 to rest.

Despite the myriad of her rumored liaisons remained of the reputation of immorality that clung to most of the ballet dancers at the time spared. Artistically, it was regarded as a model of "bon goût ". She was smooth and precise, shone in the pantomime and bribed in the ballets of Louis Milon.

Emperor Napoleon I was one of her most ardent admirers.