Rigolboche

{{Short description|French dancer}}

{{For|the film|Rigolboche (film)}}

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Amelia Marguerite Badel (stage name, Rigolboche; nicknamed "the Huguenot"; Nancy, 13 June 1842 - Bobigny, 1 February 1920) was a French dancer. Credited for inventing the can-can,{{cite book|last=Menken|first=Adah Isaacs|title=Infelicia and Other Writings|url=https://archive.org/details/infeliciaotherwr0000menk|url-access=registration|date=29 April 2002|publisher=Broadview Press|isbn=978-1-55111-284-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/infeliciaotherwr0000menk/page/243 243]–}}{{cite book|last=Huysmans|first=J. K.|title=Parisian Sketches|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TtlU4IhuPZEC&pg=PT143|date=10 February 2011|publisher=SCB Distributors|isbn=978-1-907650-19-2|pages=143–}} her acme occurred from 1858 to 1861.{{cite book|last=Gordon|first=Rae Beth|title=Dances with Darwin, 1875-1910: Vernacular Modernity in France|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sDlcFE_lvgQC&pg=PA26|year=2009|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-0-7546-5243-4|pages=26–}} Her stage name, Rigolboche, is a slang term formed from the word "funny" and the suffix boche designating a "joker" or a very funny person.