Charles Le Picq

Charles Felix Richard Auguste Le Picq (2 March 1745, Strasbourg – 29 October 1806, Saint Petersburg) was a French dancer and choreographer.

Biography Le Picq was the grandson of the renowned French dance teacher Antoine Le Picq (1673–1759), and the son of a dancer and dance teacher Jean Felix Charles Le Picq (born 1713) He advised in 1801 to invite to Russia the French choreographer Charles Didelot.

His wife and stage partner was Bavarian ballerina Gertrude Ablöscher-Rossi (1756–1799). His stepson was Carlo Rossi (1775–1849), became the famous Russian architect, son of son of Gertrude's first husband, Italian dancer and choreographer Domenico Rossi. The children of Charles Le Picq and Gertrude were: Caroline (the second wife of the Spanish composer Vincente Martín y Soler), Henriette Wilhelmine (wife of a German pharmacist Johann Moritz Bartels) and Marie Gertrude (wife of a French dancer and ballet master Auguste Antoine Poireau), they also had a son Charles. They were short dancers in Russia at the end of the 18th century.