MT 071 - Comte Bronze, 27-28mm Diameter Circa 1825-1855
The obverse reads THEATRE / COMTE / A' 6 Hs. 1/2 / PASSAGE CHOISEUL. The reverse reads ABONNEMENT PERPETUAL / DE FAMILLE / 1/2 PLACE / BON POUR / 4 / PERSONNES.
Louis COUNT (1783-1859) was one of the most famous artists of his time: conjurer, ventriloque and "Physicist of the King", titrate that Louis XVIII decreed to him. He created a theatre in 1812 with the Passage of the Panoramas, which he moved, forced by the authorities due to fire hazards, with the Choiseul Passage in 1826, under the name of "Theatre of the Young Pupils of Mr. Count".
Count (Theater Choiseul, says Young Elèves and, more ordinaryly Theater), established January 23 1825, to Paris, passage Choiseul and street Monsigny
Theatre Count To 6 H ½ - Choiseul Passage Perpetual subscription of Family - 1/2 Place Good for 4 People
As conjurer, Count had an extremely pleasant talent. Its turns were carried out with a large address and especially with much of skill. One will judge some by the following turn, which bore the name of the Birth of the flowers. After having sown seeds on a ground pinch contained in a small cut, it made some conspiracies, spread a liquor ignited on this ground and covered it with a bell which, said it, was to concentrate heat and to stimulate the vegetation. Indeed, a few seconds after, a bunch of flowers varied appeared in the cut.
