In 1991 Marie Sara Bourseiller was Europe's only female what?

Marie Sara Bourseiller (born in Boulogne-Billancourt on June 27, 1964) is known for being a female bullfighter. In 1991 she was Europe's only female rejoneador.

It began with visits to the south of France and to the corridas of Seville when she was in her early teens. “I really knew this was what I wanted to do,” she says. “I read every book about bullfighting, everything Hemingway wrote, knew the histories of every fighter and went to every exhibit by artists like Picasso and Botero.”

Bourseiller who fights in the rejoneador style, on horseback with a barbed lance. She was trained by one of the best: Simon Casas, a prominent matador until his retirement in 1975. “When I first saw her, I didn’t think about her potential as a bullfighter,” says Casas. “It was lust at first sight. But,” he adds, “it didn’t take me long to realize she had the passion, patience and intelligence of a champion. She and her horses are trained and tuned up like Formula One race cars.”