Sublime

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Avec Gustave de Beaumont, qui avait de son côté publié Marie ou l’Esclavage aux États-Unis14, il effectua à l’été 1835 un nouveau voyage en Angleterre et en Irlande. Chaleureusement accueilli à Londres, il rencontra John Stuart Mill, disciple de Jeremy Bentham, fondateur de l’utilitarisme, avec lequel il correspondit jusqu’à sa mort.

In his "Soiree Fantastique," Robert-Houdin's effect was presented as a magical box that could become heavy or light at will and thus protect itself from thieves. It was accomplished with a metal-lined box and an electromagnet beneath the stage-in the 1840s such magnets were little understood by the general public and not likely to be susp

Boucicault's ghost was state-of-the-art stagecraft.

Not only was "The Corsican Brothers" an enormous success, but the ghost's weird appearance was one of the most famous entrances in the history of the theatre.

``the relapsed criminal is the rule rather than the exception,''

l’indétrônable inspirateur du courant de l’éducation nouvelle

Still, it's hard to overestimate deKolta's influence on his generation of magicians. He began a cult of creativity that certainly inspired two remarkable performers who followed him onto the Egyptian Hall stage. One, David Devant, is remembered today as Britain's greatest magician. The other, Charles Morritt, is largely forgotten today, a peripatet