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FANNY, a celebrated a dancer; born in Vienna, June 23, 1810.

She was the daughter of Johann Elssler, Haydn's factotum, and was educated at Naples for the ballet, with her elder sister Theresa, who in 1851 became the wife of Prince Adalbert of Prussia, and was ennobled. Fanny helped to raise money for the Bunker Hill Monument.

She died in Vienna, Nov. 27, 1884.

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