Jean-Baptiste Hus
# Jean-Baptiste Hus

Jean-Baptiste Hus (Paris, June 1736 – Paris, 1805) was a French ballet dancer and ballet master who used the pseudonym Hus-Malo. He was the son of François Hus and Françoise-Nicole Gravillon, the brother of the future actress Mlle Hus, and a member of the large Hus family, an 18th-century dynasty of dancers and actors. He was a student of Louis Dupré, Gaetan Vestris and Jean-Georges Noverre. He married the ballet dancer Elisabeth Bayard, also known as Mademoiselle Bibi, and adopted her son Pierre-Louis Stapleton as his own, who he helped build a career as a dancer.

Jean-Baptise Hus worked as a ballet master at La Monnaie starting from 1759.

## Children

* Pierre-Louis Stapleton, born on 17 June 1758 and adopted by Jean-Baptiste Hus.
* Albert-Francois-Joseph, born and baptised in Brussels on 29 May 1762.
* Jean-Pierre, born and baptised on 19 October 1766.
* Madeleine, baptised at Lyon on 16 April 1770.
* Pierre-François, baptised on 19 November 1774.
