Thursday, January 12, 2023

Apollon (strongman)

 Louis Uni was born at eight o'clock in the morning on February 21, 1862 at the age of no. 18 on the boulevard with his name (Boulevard Louis Uni, Marsillargues), in the house his father Jean-Jacques Uni built in 1845. He was the son and daughter of Elisabeth (nee Bremond), and descended from a family with a large number of local giants. His father, Jacques Uni, was 2.03 meters (6 foot and 8 inches) tall. However the average height of a man in France in 1800 was 163.7 centimeters (5feet and 4.45 inches). Actor Uni Apollon at age 64. At 14, he fled his parents and joined the traveling Italian circus Caramagne in Lunel. While performing, the police seized him and returned him to his father. His parents eventually let him to leave their home and begin working alongside Felix Bernard, Pietro Dalmasso. He also worked with Henri Pechon and August "the Butcher". He completed his military service aged 20.Uni was the first to take over Cafe Fontaine in Paris and after having it renovated, the place, he was named "Concert Apollon' and began to present theatrical programmes with athletic acts thrown in. He eventually had to stop the theatre and lost many dollars. 5 Uni was a friend and a defender of academic and advocate for the physical education of Edmond Desbonnet.




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