Jean-Baptiste Pezon
Jean-Baptiste Pezon , born in 1827 with Rimeize (Lozere), deceased on November 13rd, 1897 with Paris. Wire of Jean Pezon Baptist, hawker lozèrien. Brother of “Jean of the Bear”. Celebrate trainer, who was at the origin of the Pezon dynasty and the Ménagerie Pezon . Started from Rimeize at the 17 years age with a wolf, it bought its first lion in 1848. In 1875 it occurs in Chatelet.
Frederic Bartholdi took as a starting point its Brutus lion for the Lion of Belfort. Toulouse Lautrec will visit him of many times to Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis), to the 6 of the street Gutenberg, in its “Large menagerie lozérienne” to make sketches of the deer (inter alia Bellone a lioness). He died in Montmartre of an heart attack whereas it had become immensely rich and that it always lived in his roulotte. He is buried with the Cimetière of the Father-Lachaise. On his tomb a sculpture the representative overlapping rests a lion. Adrien Pezon, his/her son, took again the torch.
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