kittynh
3rd December 2005, 04:34 PM
I finally got to the magic place in Paris that I have been trying to visit for the past 2 years. It is open very limited hours. It was well worth the wait. I showed up at 2pm, when it opens and there are hoards of Parisian schoolchildren! I've never seen so many little kids in one place and I work with preschoolers!
This place is so cool. Not fancy or big, but what treasures inside!
Because they have tons of Robert Houdin stuff. They even have the door to his house! The sad part is the little kids didn't really get it. I was answering the questions the guide was asking (and my French stinks). I got right "what did Robert Houdins father do for a living?" and the name of that American dude that changed his name to Houdini!
The best was they had a little movie on restoring one of Robert Houdins little mechanical tricks. It was the little pastery shop, and sure enough they had it at the museum. They also had the orange tree and a rose bush. Plus a whole lot of his floating hands clocks. But did they make any of them work for me? NO!!!! I was so sad. But I also felt I was in the presence of genius and very humbled to actually see so much of his work! There were papers, photographs, drawings! It was a Houdin heaven!
There was also a very little magic show. The funny thing is that there was one little boy in the front row. when the magician did his first trick this kid stood up and clapped! His eyes were popping out of his head and he was hooked! I saw a future magician in his happiness!
Then I went to the little shop where all they seemed to sell was magic tricks. Right next to the shop was an area that said, "Professional magicians only." There were cases of props from old tricks! Plus they have a whole classroom for teaching magicians! I was DYING to get into that area! Just to look at the props that I could only peek at.
Nothing doing....
Then I pulled out a photograph I have of the girls and myself with Mr.Randi. I pointed and the man behind the counter said, "AMAZING!!!" He then called over the magician who had just performed for the children (and myself). He chatted away far too quickly in French and then said, "I am telling him THAT is how a magician SHOULD look!" Everyone had to have a peek.
I still didn't get a peek into the special area.
I did ask for a trick that even an "idiot" could do. I ended up with a floating magic wand. I was informed that my hands are too small for "magic" but I got back at them by saying, "Well, the great TAlma had small hands!"
ha to you Parisians!
Though they are right, Mr.RAndi IS what a magician should look like!
And in France he is known as AMAZING! as indeed he is!
This place is so cool. Not fancy or big, but what treasures inside!
Because they have tons of Robert Houdin stuff. They even have the door to his house! The sad part is the little kids didn't really get it. I was answering the questions the guide was asking (and my French stinks). I got right "what did Robert Houdins father do for a living?" and the name of that American dude that changed his name to Houdini!
The best was they had a little movie on restoring one of Robert Houdins little mechanical tricks. It was the little pastery shop, and sure enough they had it at the museum. They also had the orange tree and a rose bush. Plus a whole lot of his floating hands clocks. But did they make any of them work for me? NO!!!! I was so sad. But I also felt I was in the presence of genius and very humbled to actually see so much of his work! There were papers, photographs, drawings! It was a Houdin heaven!
There was also a very little magic show. The funny thing is that there was one little boy in the front row. when the magician did his first trick this kid stood up and clapped! His eyes were popping out of his head and he was hooked! I saw a future magician in his happiness!
Then I went to the little shop where all they seemed to sell was magic tricks. Right next to the shop was an area that said, "Professional magicians only." There were cases of props from old tricks! Plus they have a whole classroom for teaching magicians! I was DYING to get into that area! Just to look at the props that I could only peek at.
Nothing doing....
Then I pulled out a photograph I have of the girls and myself with Mr.Randi. I pointed and the man behind the counter said, "AMAZING!!!" He then called over the magician who had just performed for the children (and myself). He chatted away far too quickly in French and then said, "I am telling him THAT is how a magician SHOULD look!" Everyone had to have a peek.
I still didn't get a peek into the special area.
I did ask for a trick that even an "idiot" could do. I ended up with a floating magic wand. I was informed that my hands are too small for "magic" but I got back at them by saying, "Well, the great TAlma had small hands!"
ha to you Parisians!
Though they are right, Mr.RAndi IS what a magician should look like!
And in France he is known as AMAZING! as indeed he is!