Barbette (December 19, 1898 – August 5, 1973) was an American female impersonator, high-wire performer, and trapeze artist born in Texas on December 19, 1899. Barbette attained great popularity throughout the United States but his greatest fame came in Europe and especially Paris, in the 1920s and 1930s.Barbette began performing as an aerialist at around the age of 14 as one-half of a circus act called The Alfaretta Sisters.
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