The performances of lions 


Tamer of lithography in 1873

Animal fights were common paris generating the eighteenth century. Fights between lions and dogs in general were held in Vienna, Austria from 1800 and England from 1825

Taming of the pioneers are Henri Martin, a French, and Isaac Van Amburgh, an American. They started in the mid nineteenth century and their techniques were very quickly copiées Martin will create in the third Cirque Olympique in Paris in 1831, a pantomime extravaganza, sheltered behind a screen, called "The Lions of Mysore" with his lion Nero and Cobourg, his tiger Atyr. Isaac Van Amburgh toured England before Queen Victoria. He quickly copied the spectacle of the French. More than the traditional horse-taming, taming the beast wanted to mark human superiority over the brute forces naturelles Jean-Baptiste Pezon is another famous lion tamer. Clyde Beatty is probably the first trainer to have used the overhead support on which the deer come to asseoir
This tradition is still alive, some trainers today, as the duo of magicians Siegfried & Roy and their white lions are still famous.