Philippe Petit
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title:
Philippe Petit
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Philippe Petit is a French highwire artist who gained fame for his unauthorized highwire walks between the towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris in 1971 and of Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1973, as well as between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City in August 1974. Since then, Petit has lived in New York, where he has been artist-in-residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, also a location of other aerial performances. He has done wire walking as part of official ce
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French highwire artist (born 1949)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Petit
date created:
2004-04-14T16:24:50Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T19:53:41Z
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