Before I proceed to the practical discussion of my subject, it may be as well perhaps to give a few particulars concerning the theatre founded by me under the title of the _Théâtre des Soirées Fantastiques de Robert-Houdin_,[3] in which I exhibited, during a long series of years, the majority of the illusions which I am about to describe in this book. And I fancy it may be agreeable to the reader if I prelude my description by an anecdote whose details (if I may judge from the effect which its mere recollection, after twenty years’ interval, produces on myself) cannot fail to excite his lively interest. I have related in my _Confidences_[4] how from a mechanician I had developed into a conj…
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