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Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly Fry and I'm Tracy V Wilson and we are doing part two of our episode on Jean-Yu-Gène Robertouda.

So as you can listen to the first one, highly encouraged because we're jumping right back in when we left off last time, Robertouda had just finished the 1844 Paris Expo at which he had won a silver medal and sold his most impressive automaton to PT Barnum.

He was still working in his shop as a watchmaker, but he had become proficient enough with automata that he was often called on to repair other people's mechanical props and he had become pretty well known in conjuring circles in Paris.

So today we are picking up right there to talk about how he pretty quickly transitioned from being an unknown watchmaker to being a famous magician in his early 40s.

Robert Oden had been performing some demonstrations of tricks for people during the 1844 Expo that's sweet, heard about that in the account from PT Barnum that we read in part one. These seem to have been primarily done to show off the capabilities of the mechanized show props that he had on display there.

But when the Expo was over, maybe bullied by his success, Robert and started considering stage conjuring more seriously.

Exactly how he got to that dream is something that's told in different ways, although the primary players and details and the different versions are pretty consistent.

Yes, so we're going with one particular version here today. No, as we talk about the interactions between these two men, they may or may not have been a little different.

So this version states that the count de la scalopeie happened upon Robert Oden shop while he was walking around Paris one day in 1843.

So that would have been even before that Paris exposition that we've been talking about. And the count was so impressed with Jean-Yu-Jen's inventions that he wanted to become his patron to help him with launching a theater.

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