[3][4] She married Joseph Bouglione [fr] in 1928. in her teen years when she began her career in the circus, working with big cats.

[5] Rosa Bouglione began performing as a child and was known for her "serpentine" dance, in which she danced "à la Loie Fuller" in a cage full of lions; she married Joseph Bouglione, a cat trainer who became a legendary circus owner and director, in a lions' cage.

[6] In 2011, she published her memoirs, Un mariage dans la cage aux lions : la grande saga du cirque Bouglione ("A wedding in the lions' cage: the great saga of the Bouglione circus").

[1] She died at the age of 107 on 26 August 2018 in her apartment at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris.

[9][4] Her funeral was held in the Cirque d'Hiver's ring on 29 August 2018 and she was buried in the Bouglione family's tomb at the cemetery of Lizy-sur-Ourcq, near Paris.