Person : Gravelet, Jean-Francois

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Blondin
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19th century wirewalker. “He used to thrill crowds with walks across Niagara Falls, sometimes with his terrified manager on his back, and sometimes with a chair, table, and lunch, which he would pause to eat in the middle of his trip.” (Hoh, p. 170)

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