The INA archives preserve more than a thousand reports and documentaries devoted to the prowess of the great squire and his wife, Gipsy. Madelen invites you to discover or rediscover them.
Alexis Gruss appears as comfortable in front of a camera as with the horses who shared his life until his last moments. He measured the impact of the small screen from the mid-1960s, participating very regularly in “La piste auxétoiles” by Gilles Margaritis. He was barely 20 years old when he presented his first equestrian aerobatics number, entitled “Les jeux du cirque”. He then called himself “Alexis Gruss junior”, his uncle bearing the same first name, being still active’. In 1982, Jack Lang, then Minister of Culture, gave it the status of National Circus. This is how the Folies Gruss were born, in Paris in winter, on tour in spring and autumn, and in Provence during the summer months.