【How-to】How did the great blondin die

Blondin, pseudonym of Jean-François Gravelet, (born February 28, 1824, Hesdin, France—died February 22, 1897, Little Ealing, near London, England), French tightrope walker and acrobat who owed his celebrity and fortune to his feat of crossing the gorge below Niagara Falls on a tightrope 1,100 feet (335 metres) long, …