Avis aux amateurs du merveilleux
Le Courrier des spectacles, ou Journal des théâtres, Paris 25 october 1800, p. 3.
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Advertisement for R. Charles's (Charles Rouy's) new venue at the Palais du Tribunat (formerly Palais-Égalité), galerie des Bons-Enfans no. 127, first floor: at the request of the consuls, ministers, ambassadors, learned societies and famous physicists, Charles is continuing his experiments in Paris. On show are four isolated busts (Calchas, Trophonius, the Pythia of Delphi and the Erythraean Sibyl), which visitors may hold suspended by their ribbons and which speak eight languages, converse, describe the audience, sing, play instruments and deliver oracles in verse; and three invisible persons (a man, a woman and a ten-year-old child) heard through four acoustic horns fitted to a glass globe hanging from a cord. Open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., price 1 franc 50 centimes, terms for societies and large families; carriage entrance from rue du Lycée (formerly Valois) no. 126. Full transcription and Italian translation.
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French
