Note 22 — ROBERT-HOUDIN—CONJURER, AUTHOR AND AMBASSADOR.
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Houdin’s original theatre in the Galerie de Valois of the Palais Royal has long ago been swallowed up in the alterations made in the building. M. Trewey, in the spring of 1905, met an old man, a former employee of the Palais, who remembered seeing Houdin perform in 1845–46, but he could not even locate the little theatre. How soon are the glories of the past forgotten by a fickle public. The theatre has been divided into two or three shops.