Ex. de St.-Hilaire
Au rédacteur du Courrier des spectacles
Le Courrier des spectacles, ou Journal des théâtres, Paris 12 march 1801, p. 3.
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Letter to the editor signed "Ex. de St.-Hilaire", a sixty-year-old who no longer goes to shows, about a séance of the physicist Robertson in the cloister (of the Capucins) where he lives, attended by the ambassadors of Sweden and Holland. He describes the curiosities shown before the phantasmagoria: Needham's eels, live insects, anamorphic pictures, mirrors of all shapes, views, "invisibles speaking eight different languages", and citizen Fitz-James imitating a popular society and producing illusions of voice; then the phantasmagoria in the "catacombs", with the book of destinies, the harmonica, Discord throwing the apple and Chaos unravelled by Love. Full transcription and Italian translation.
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French
