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circa 1830: Italian dancer Maria Taglioni (1804 - 1884), the daughter of ballet master Filippo Taglioni and a Swedish mother. She worked in London and Paris with great success and retired in 1847 to teach deportment to the British Royal children. Engraving after the painting by AE Chalon RA. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Maria Taglioni|Marie Taglioni