A REMARKABLE CAREER.
The career of M. Dejoan, the proprietor of the circus in til# Champs Elsyees aud ou the Boulevards, who has just died at the age of 94, is n remarkable one. lie started in life as a butcher's apprentice, and his good looks drew all the cooks in the neighbourhood to the shop hf his master, who, on retiring, left him the business. Having amassed a comfortable fortune he started the circus, kept it going for half a century, and realised very large profits. He waa remarkable for his Herculean strength, and for his attachment to the Napolean family, which the late Emperor requited by making M, °^ ICer °f tho Legion of Honour, on the B * or * es are to!d that border vcry largelv' V| 3 i! fiction .minalei that shortly aitlc fu" 3 ifc " stated escaped circus a tJ S ur and made straight for him r> e ?J" b;ti ng> opened his.aw, then clo ee a t ] , ean c l uietl y he re-opened, them the tiger fell ? em '• when feet, snwtheredin hia embrace dat - hia
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5651, 27 December 1879, Page 7
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181A REMARKABLE CAREER. New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5651, 27 December 1879, Page 7
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