Circus of Pepin and Breschard

Invited to perform in the United States by Spanish Ambassador Luis de Onís, the company landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, from Spain.

In the following years Pépin and Breschard's troupes built circus theatres in cities across the United States, including New York, New York; New Orleans; Charlestown, Massachusetts; Baltimore, Maryland; Richmond, Virginia; Alexandria, Virginia; Charleston, South Carolina; Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Pépin and Breschard introduced at least one Shakespearean play to the US and were one of the first, if not the first, companies in America to perform hippodrama.

[5] An early member of the company, Peter Grain, later achieved a degree of fame as a painter and dioramist.

[6] Pépin, born in what is now New York State, was the first American to own and operate a circus in his native country.