Louis Comte

Louis Apollinaire Christien Emmanuel Comte "The King's Conjurer" (born Geneva, June 22, 1788 – Rueil, 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).^[1]

Comte owned the Théâtre Comte passage des Panoramas of the 2nd arrondissement of Paris and another one in the Passage Choiseul.

Bibliography

• Milbourne Christopher, David Copperfield, The Illustrated History of Magic, 2005, p. 133. ISBN 0-7867-1688-6.
• Henry Ridgely Evans, The Old and the New Magic, Chicago, 1906. Reprinted 2006, ISBN 1-4286-3672-2. p. 150ff.

References

1. Jacques Voignier, preface to The Magic of Robert-Houdin: An Artist's Life at The Miracle Factory