Jean Baptiste Casmiere Breschard

Jean Baptiste Casmiere Breschard was a circus owner and equestrian performer in the Circus of Pepin and Breschard.

Frenchman Breschard reintroduced the circus clown to the United States in 1807. Mme. Breschard, wife of Jean Baptiste, was a premier equestrienne and is described in numerous sources as being one of the early businesswomen in the USA. [Dexter, Elisabeth Anthony. "Career Women of America, 1776-1840". Francestown, NH: Marshall Jones Company, 1950.] Both are documented as performing in the United States between 1807 and 1817. Breschard is reported as performing in Puerto Rico and Havana, Cuba, in 1820. [The New York Columbian, New York, NY: 10/13/1820.]

George Washington Riggs identified a Gilbert Stuart portrait's subject as being Breschard in 1878. [Mason, George C. "The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart". New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1879.]

Breschard's place and date of birth and death are unknown.

External links

* [http://www.circusinamerica.org/public/corporate_bodies/public_show/85 The Circus in America: 1793-1940]
* [http://www.circushistory.org/Olympians/OlympiansB2.htm Olympians of the Sawdust Circle]

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