Charles Blondin

French tightrope walker and acrobat

1824 CE to 1897 CE

Charles Blondin (born Jean François Gravelet, February 28, 1824 – 22 February 1897) is a French tightrope walker and acrobat. He tours the United States, and is known for crossing the eleven hundred-foot (three hundred and forty-meter) Niagara Gorge on a tightrope.

During an event in Dublin in 1861, the rope on which he is walking breaks and two workers are killed, although Blondin is not injured.

He marries three times ans had eight children

His name become synonymous with tightrope walking.

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