Pezon, the lion tamer, died at the age of seventy-three. He was a highly popular character here, and for more than forty years the fairs near the Bastile -- those of Clichy, Montmartre ...

Maria even became a trained lion tamer and used her father's reputation ... Other times, she called herself "the daughter of the famous mad monk whose feats in Russia astonished the world." ...

Even very, very famous people have to start somewhere ... and Christopher Walken didn't go onto have a lucrative lion taming career, everyone learned something from the experience - even if ...