COMTE -- MT071.00
LOCATION: Paris, France
DATE: Unknown
OBV: "THEATRE / COMTE / "A 6 Hs ½ PASSAGE CHOISEUL"
REV: "ABONNEMENT PERPETUAL / DE FAMILLE / ½ / Place / B0N POUR / 4 / PERSONNES"
COMPOSITION: C, R8, V8; 28-S
Information From:
Magicians' Tokens And Related Items
An Illustrated check-list with estimates of values and rarities.
by F. William Kuethe, Jr.
TAMS Journal, Volume 18, Number 5, October 1978, (Part Two)
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Magic Library (Home) |
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Very Fine |
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Bryan-Keith Taylor |
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Louis Apollinaire Christien Emmanuel Comte, "The King's Conjurer" (born Geneva, June 22, 1788 - Died, November 25, 1859), also known simply as Comte, was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian magician, greatly admired by Robert-Houdin. He performed for Louis XVIII at the Tuileries Palace and was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by Louis-Philippe. He was sometimes called "The Conjurer of the Three Kings" (Louis XVIII, Charles X, and Louis-Philippe). Comte owned a theater in the Passage Choiseul.
(1788-1859) (June 22) Magician, impersonator and ventriloquist, performing in the early 1800s in Europe. One of the first magicians to perform the Rabbit from a Hat trick.
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Subscription token (for a 4 people family) to « Theatre Comte » . This theatre was created in 1830 by Louis Comte, french ventriloquist and conjuror , used for his magic performances, ; due to his success, he was nominated “Royal Physician” by Louis XVIII. His theatre was then ( ca 1860 ) “Théatre des Bouffes Parisiens”