Valentine Petit by Truus, Bob & Jan too! Via Flickr: Vintage French postcard, 1900s. Photo by Reutlinger. S.I.P. 186. Valentine Augustine Thérèse Petit, born on April 29, 1873, in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Brussels (Belgium) and died on January 18, 1951, in Nogent-sur-Marne, was a French dancer, singer, and silent film actress of Belgian origin who spent her entire career in France. After her career at the Folies-Bergère, she was married to actor-director Léonce Perret, in whose films she often performed, mainly in the early and mid-1910s.











