Cirque du Soleil was founded by Guy Laliberté and Gilles Ste-Croix, former street performers, in Baie-Saint-Paul on 16 June 1984. They initially started as a performing troupe called Les Échassiers and toured Quebec in various forms between 1979 and 1983.
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