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I keep saying I am an auto-didact, but I have a lot of outside influences. One I could cite is juggler Francis Brunn, who was the first man to throw ten rings in the air; he was really an amazing juggler who showed onstage the quest for perfection.

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I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by myself.

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To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.

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I have been performing in the street for more than 50 years: magic for basically 60 years, and the high wire 45 years. The beauty of it is that it's never the same. It's never easy. And yet, part of my art is to make it look easy.

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I started very early, from five or six years old, to climb. To climb trees, to climb rocks everywhere I could. At some point, of course, I used a rope.

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I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how it started. And also in magic, of course. With a piece of rope, you can do magic.

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Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers.

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I did a walk in 1973 illegally in the northern side of the Sydney Harbor Bridge.

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It's very normal - when you're not used to the world of the high wire, it's very normal to be simply terrified. The reason I'm not is because I've done it for so many years.

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I've been arrested many times for illegal high wire walking and illegal street performing.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Celebrity

Born: August 13th, 1949

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