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May Milton, May Belfort, Louise Weber and more

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“At the Moulin Rouge,” by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (image via Wikimedia)

May Milton only danced one season in Paris.

The petite “English Miss,” as theater marquees later declared her, moved to France some time around 1891 and made fast friends with the bohemian set. She danced ballet, landed a gig on “a small, undistinguished stage” and drank absinthe w…

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