Meet Rosa Richeter, a noted English aerialist and protege of Canadian tightrope walker the Great Farini. She made her big debut in 1877 as Zazel, the world’s first “human cannonball.” She was just fourteen. Popped out of a metal cylinder loaded with springs, flying sixty feet in the air, passing over the heads of spectators, Zazel would land safely and to great applause in a large net. The act made her very, very famous. At her height she performed for 20,000 people crowds every night.
She was so popular that other performers stole her act, the spring-loaded cannon idea, and even her stage name, Zazel! Rosa went back to walking the tightrope. Ironically, it was a fall from a tightrope that ended her career by breaking her back, at the age of just 29.
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