Valentin le désossé

Etienne Renaudin ( born February 26, 1843 in Sceaux, Hauts -de -Seine, † March 4, 1907 in Paris ), better known by his stage name Valentin le Désossé ( Valentin the Boneless ), was a celebrated acrobat and dancer of the Paris Cancan milieus.

The son of a lawyer, first settled as a wine merchant in the rue Coquillière in the Halles, was prepared by a procedure for the expropriation employees in the notary of his brother and eventually lived by renting several apartments ( rue de la Motte- Piquet ).

Renaudin was a passionate dancer. On the day he led the life of a respected citizen, in the evening, he moved across Paris in the ballrooms of Montparnasse and Montmartre. To his delight, he appeared as a snake man in the Tivoli Vauxhall and acted as " choreographer " in Valentino at the Bal Mabille, and at the Elysée Montmartre.

In the Bal Bullier at Montparnasse, he joined acquaintance with the more than twenty years younger Cancan dancer La Goulue. On its side, the audience cheered him in the 1889 World's Fair opened Bal du Moulin Rouge. Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec portrayed the couple several times, including in 1895 for the famous poster of the Moulin Rouge. The very lean and great artists awakened in his black frock coat and with his battered hat the appearance of a starving artist, the one because of his appearance could smile. But at the Moulin Rouge wore the quadrille dancers the now over 50 -year-olds every evening triumphantly across the stage.

In addition, he was an avid horseman, the Toulouse -Lautrec often encountered in the early morning in the Bois de Boulogne.