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Professor Dicksonn

(Avesnelles, Avesnes, France: 4th October 1857 - 27th May 1939)

Stage name of Le Comte [Count] Paul-Alfred de Saint-Génois de Saint-Breucq. Learned magic at age 17. Pro illusionist since 1880. Also worked marionettes. Featured at the Théâtre Robert-Houdin 1883-86, during which time he was also its co-director. Later operated the Théâtre Dicksonn in Paris 1889-94. Played the Casino de Paris 1909. Wrote 7 books in French, from Mes trucs (1893, 214pp) to Mes trucs dévoilés (1928).

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Mes Trucs Dévoilés - My Tricks Revealed by Professor Dicksonn

The first complete English edition of a 1928 French exposure classic - translated, annotated, and fully illustrated.

In 1928, the celebrated Parisian conjurer Professor Dicksonn - born the Count of Saint-Genois, protégé of Cham, and one-time director of the Théâtre Robert-Houdin - set down the working secrets of an entire era of mystification. Mes Trucs Dévoilés is his crusade against the supernatural: a witty, unsparing exposure of the magnetizers, "seers," telepaths, fakirs, and séance-mediums who preyed on a credulous public, written by a master who had spent a lifetime fooling...