Jean-François Coulon was a French ballet dancer and teacher.

After a career at the Opéra de Paris, he founded his school at the start of the 19th century and became one of the most renowned ballet teachers in Europe. Made professor of the "classe de perfectionnement" at the Opéra in 1807, his students included Geneviève Gosselin

Geneviève Gosselin

Geneviève-Adélaïde Gosselin was a French ballet dancer.-Life:Daughter of a ballet master, she was the eldest sister of many renowned dancers of the Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris in the 1810s, 1820s and 1830s - Constance Gosselin, wife of the dancer Anatole ; Louis Gosselin, premier danseur at Paris...

, Louis Henry, Marie Quériau, Pauline Duvernay

Pauline Duvernay

Pauline Duvernay or Yolande Marie-Louise Duvernay or Yolande Marie Louise de Varnay was a noted French dancer.-Biography:...

, Albert

Albert (dancer)

François-Ferdinand Decombe was a French ballet dancer and ballet master, under the stage name Albert....

, Filippo Taglioni

Filippo Taglioni

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 and above all Filippo's Marie

Marie Taglioni

Marie Taglioni was a famous Italian/Swedish ballerina of the Romantic ballet era, a central figure in the history of European dance.-Biography:...

. From 1810 he contributed to the development of the pointes

En pointe

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 technique.

His son Antoine (1796–1849) made a career at the Opéra de Paris and at Her Majesty's Theatre

Her Majesty's Theatre

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 in London

London

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, being the latter's ballet director from 1844 until his death.