André-Jean-Jacques Deshayes

André-Jean-Jacques Deshayes (abbreviated as A.J.J. Deshayes) was a French ballet dancer, choreographer and ballet master born in Paris on 24 January 1777 and died in Batignolles on 10 December 1846. The son of the ballet master of the Comédie-Italienne, Jacques-Francois Deshayes, André-Jean-Jacques studied dance with his father, and then at the school of the Paris Opera Ballet from 1788, and debuted there while very young in the roles of children. When he retired in 1842, Deshayes moved back to Paris to what was then the new quarter Batignolles, where he died at the age of 69.

André-Jean-Jacques Deshayes

André-Jean-Jacques Deshayes (abbreviated as A.J.J. Deshayes) was a French ballet dancer, choreographer and ballet master born in Paris on 24 January 1777 and died in Batignolles on 10 December 1846. The son of the ballet master of the Comédie-Italienne, Jacques-Francois Deshayes, André-Jean-Jacques studied dance with his father, and then at the school of the Paris Opera Ballet from 1788, and debuted there while very young in the roles of children. When he retired in 1842, Deshayes moved back to Paris to what was then the new quarter Batignolles, where he died at the age of 69.