Alexis Grüss died on Saturday at the age of 79. He had just celebrated the 50th anniversary of the creation of his first marquee erected in 1974.
The Folies Gruss orchestra performed Julius Fucik's Pod Admiralskou Vlajkov during his funeral ceremony on Thursday. Alexis Gruess will be buried in the cemetery in Piolencuse, near Paris, on Friday, April 12, according to a first press release from the family. The circus world paid a final tribute to the figure of the equestrian circus on Thursday April 11 at the Saint-Roch church in Paris. They are the only French artists to have won the Clown d'Or, joining the previous two (Clown d'Argent in 1998 then the Clownd'Or in 2001) The Alexis Gruss dynasty dates back to "a couple formed in 1868 by the marriage between Charles Grüsson, initially a stonemason, and Maria Martinetti"