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 ...

“Just tie me on the car roof because I’m leaving this place,” a 19-year-old Birmingham girl named Gladys Gillem decided in ...

The other my great uncle and namesake, Britain’s youngest, and subsequently oldest, lion tamer. It is a story about their unlikely friendship - and their right hands. Readers have all heard of ...

The figure of lion tamer Isaac Van Amburgh fetched top price at the auction A rare figure of a lion tamer fetched the top price when a huge collection of Staffordshire pottery gathered by a ...

A rare figure of a lion tamer fetched the top price when a huge collection of Staffordshire pottery gathered by a Borders hotelier was sold at the weekend. The pieces, which belonged to the late ...