Madame Rosa rose to fame as the matriarch of Paris' Winter Circus by marrying businessman Joseph Bouglione - in a lion's cage - in 1928. Today, at 103, she has outlived her late husband by decades but still has a smile on her face as she reminisces over her extraordinary life. Rosa appears at the circus apartment doorway in Paris in sparkling diamonds, red lipstick and a walking frame and sits down beside her leopard skin rug. Rosa Bouglione, 103, (pictured last month) shows an art piece depicting her and her husband during their circus days as she sits in her Paris apartment
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Madame Rosa has 54 grandchildren and great grandchildren
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She has survived two world wars and the Nazi occupation
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The secrets of her eternal youth include hard work, sleeping very little and deadly animals
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