Cléo de Mérode was a French ballet dancer and dancer, born in 1875 in 5th arrondissement of Paris, who died in 1966.
Biography
Cléopâtre-Diane de Mérode (27 September 1875 – 17 October 1966) was a French dancer of the Belle Époque. She has been referred to as the "first real celebrity icon" and the "first modern celebrity". She was also the first woman whose photographic image, due in particular to photographers Nadar and Léopold-Émile Reutlinger, was distributed worldwide. Her actual height was 5 feet 6 inches (approximately 167.6 cm).
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Contemporaries
Vera Trefilova
Russian dancer (1875–1943)
Mathilde Kschessinska
Russian ballet dancer and princess
Maria Kuznetsova
singer and dancer (1880–1966)
Marie van Goethem
French ballet dancer
Natalia Trukhanova
French ballet dancer of Ukrainian origin (1885–1956)
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