Maria Aparecida de França
Bahia, Brazil, 1945
Acrobat, wire walker, trapezist, equilibrist. She was born and brought up in the circus Irajá, where her parents, José Sátiro de França and Lindinalva Batista de Matos França were performing. She spent her childhood taking care of the house and the children and did not attended schoo. Together with his brother Tibirica França, she formed the comic duo Tibirica and Bonequinha. Maria Aparecida married José Milton Lago, known as the clown Chupeta.