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unmaskingrobert00houdgoog.pdf | 69 | THE UNMASKING OF ROBERT-HOUDIN appeared on a programme used by Christopher Pinchbeck, Sr., and the younger Fawkes. In 1784 it was included in the répertoire of the Italian conjurer, Pinetti, in the guise of "Le Bouquet-philosophique." In 1822 the same trick, but this time called "An Enchanted Garden," was featured by M. Cornillot, who appeared in England as the pupil and successor of Pinetti. The trick was first explained in public print by Henri De- cremps in 1784 when his famous exposé of Pinetti was published B under the title of "La Magie Blanche Dévoilée," and in 1786- 87 both Halle and Wiegleb ex- posed the trick completely in their respective works on magic. That Robert-Houdin was an Diagram of the orange-tree trick, from Wiegleb's The omnivorous reader is proven by Natural Magic," published in his own writings. That he knew 1794. the history and tricks of Pinetti is proven by his own words, for in Chapter VI. of his "Memoirs" he devoted fourteen pages to Pinetti and the latter's relations with Torrini. Now to prove that the tree tricks offered by Fawkes, Pinchbeck, Pinetti, Cornillot, and Robert-Houdin were practically one and the same, and to tell something of the history of the four magicians who featured the trick before Robert-Houdin had been heard of: Unquestionably, the real inventor of the mysteriot tree was Christopher Pinchbeck, who was England [52] |