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unmaskingrobert00houdgoog.pdf | 91 | THE UNMASKING OF ROBERT-HOUDIN in his later years he became interested in ballooning, the sensation of the hour, and spent his entire fortune on balloon experiments. He died in Bartichoff, Volhinie, aged fifty years. Pinetti was a man of rare inventive genius and almost N° a Beduer en and Henri Decremps, the French author who exposed and endeavored to ruin Pinetti, but succeeded only in immortalizing him. reconstructed the art of conjuring, so numerous were his inventions. For half a century after his death his suc- cessors drew upon Pinetti's inventions and répertoire for their programmes. Naturally such ability aroused bitter jealousies, especially as Pinetti made no attempt to con- [74] |