Auguste Vestris

…the North” (in reference to Auguste Vestris, a famous French dancer of the 18th century and a member of the Vestris family of dancers).

Gaétan Vestris’s son Auguste was equally illustrious. Trained solely and with the greatest care by his father, he made a single unofficial appearance at the Opéra (and was dubbed Vestr’Allard by a newspaper critic) in 1772, at age 12. Although he revealed extraordinary…