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Great French Illusionist Unveiled in a Magic House
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Barry James
International Herald Tribune
08-21-1998
As a former minister of culture, the mayor of Blois, Jack Lang, knows a thing or two about conjuring subsidies from the public purse.
But if you are interested in legerdemain, prestidigitation, illusion or the story of a remarkable 19th-century showman and savant called Jean-Eugene Robert-Houdin, you might consider the 67 million francs ($11 million) of taxpayers' money that was poured into an ambitious house of the magic arts here to have been well spent.
Robert-Houdin, a native of Blois and the museum's muse, was the first of the great ...
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