pages: unmaskingrobert00houdgoog.pdf, 146
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unmaskingrobert00houdgoog.pdf | 146 | acquaintance of Jules de Rovere, the first to employ a title now generally given to fashionable conjurers." And after Rovere, Phillippe, who is by far the most important presenter of the Pastry Cook of the Palais Royal, as bearing upon Robert-Houdin's claims. For Phillippe's early history we must depend largely upon Robert-Houdin's "Memoirs." According to these, Phillippe started life as a confectioner or maker of sweets, and his real name was Phillippe Talon. According to an article published in L'Illusionniste in January, 1902, he was born in Alias, near Nîmes, December 25th, 1802, and died in Bokhara, Turkey, June 27th, 1878. Like many a genius and successful man, his early history was written in a minor key. According to Robert- Houdin his sweets did not catch the Parisian fancy, and he went to London, where at that time French bonbons were in high favor. But for some reason he failed in 9 [129] |