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It is located in the Loir-et-Cher département in the Loire Valley, in France, in the center of the city of Blois. [1] As a museum of France and bearing the official label of "Musée de France", it is the only public museum in Europe which incorporates in one place collections of magic and a site for permanent performing arts.
Robert-Houdin was born Jean-Eugène Robert in Blois, France, on 7 December 1805—a day after his autobiography said he was. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] His father, Prosper Robert, was a watchmaker in Blois. Jean-Eugene's mother, the former Marie-Catherine Guillon, died when he was just a young child. [ 3 ]
The Musée de la Magie (French pronunciation: [myze də la maʒi]), also known as the Musée de la Curiosité et de la Magie and the Académie de la Magie, is a private museum located in the 4th arrondissement at 11, rue saint Paul, Paris, France. It is open several afternoons per week; an admission fee is charged.
The International Federation of Magic Societies (FISM) (Fédération Internationale des Sociétés Magiques) was founded on September 5, 1948, and is one of the most respected organizations in the magic community. It is an international body coordinating dozens of national and international clubs and federations around the world.
Xavier Mortimer (born June 20, 1980), is a French magician and variety performer. [1] A winner of multiple awards, he has appeared on television shows Penn & Teller: Fool Us, America's Got Talent, Masters of Illusion, Plus Grand Cabaret du Monde, and The Next Great Magician on ITV.
These practitioners engage in folk magic, spellwork, and other witchcraft practices. Sorcellerie refers to witchcraft practices in France, [130] often rooted in traditional folk magic, spellcasting, and working with natural elements. Wróżbiarstwo is the Polish term for divination and witchcraft. It involves practices like fortune-telling ...
David Stone was born in Eaubonne, France. [citation needed]At 19, a school friend showed Stone magic tricks and taught him card manipulation. At 23, he won the Le Prix Diavol, a regional contest for magicians organised annually in France by FFAP.
The performer takes a deck of cards, and places on the table two face-up "marker" cards, one black and one red; the black on the left and the red on the right.The performer tells the spectator that he or she is going to deal cards face-down from the deck and the object of the exercise is for the subject to use their intuition to identify whether each card in the deck is black or red.