Pezon, the lion tamer, died at the age of seventy-three. He was a highly popular character here, and for more than forty years the fairs near the Bastile -- those of Clichy, Montmartre, Neuilly ...

In Myth and Menagerie: Seeing Lions in the Nineteenth Century (2024), Katie Hornstein examines these complex human-lion dynamics, their manifestation in powerful French institutions, and artists ...

LION TAMER SAWS BARS.; His Release from Ellis Island Depends on This Work. Share full article. March 17, 1909. Credit... The New York Times Archives.