High wire artist Philippe Petit with World Shortest Man Michu

High wire artist Philippe Petit with World Shortest Man Michu

High wire artist Philippe Petit with Michu (Smallest man in the World) 1975 RBBC About Petit Philippe Petit (French pronunciation: ​[filip pəti]; born 13 August 1949) is a French high-wire artist who gained fame for his high-wire walk between the towers of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, 1971, Sydney harbour bridge as well as his high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, on the morning of 7 August 1974. Read more About Michu "Mihaly “Michu” Meszaros, who has died aged 76, was a circus performer better known as “Michu, the smallest man in the world”. Standing at just 33 inches tall, Michu first appeared with the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus in 1973 and was billed as “seven inches shorter than P T Barnum’s Tom Thumb”." Excerpt from the Mihaly 'Michu' Meszaros' Obituary in The Telegraph.

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