page_title: Louis Comte
hierarchical_section_title: Louis Comte
caption_attribution_description: English: Paris, France, Admission Jeton Token Théâtre Comte, Passage Choiseul, ND (1827 - 1846). Bronze, d. = 27 mm. Theatre admission coin for a family of 4. Louis Apollinaire Christien Emmanuel Comte, Parisian magician, 1778 Geneva, Switzerland - 1859 Rueil-Malmaison, France 4 lines: "THEATRE * COMTE * A 6 HS. 1/2 PASSAGE CHOISEUL"/ 5 lines: "ABONNEMENT DE FAMILLE BON POUR 4 PERSONNES". Condition: Nice VERY FINE*.
context_page_description: Louis Apollinaire Christien Emmanuel Comte "The King's Conjurer", also known simply as Comte, was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian magician, greatly admired by Robert-Houdin.
  He performed for Louis XVIII at the Tuileries Palace and was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by Louis-Philippe. He was sometimes called "The Conjurer of the Three Kings". In 1814, Comte became the first conjurer on record to pull a white rabbit out of a top hat though this is also attributed to the much later John Henry Anderson.
  Comte owned the Théâtre Comte passage des Panoramas of the 2nd arrondissement of Paris and another one in the Passage Choiseul.
context_section_description: Louis Apollinaire Christien Emmanuel Comte "The King's Conjurer" (born Geneva, June 22, 1788 – Rueil, November 25, 1859), also known simply as Comte, was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian magician, greatly admired by Robert-Houdin.
  He performed for Louis XVIII at the Tuileries Palace and was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by Louis-Philippe. He was sometimes called "The Conjurer of the Three Kings" (Louis XVIII, Charles X, and Louis-Philippe). In 1814, Comte became the first conjurer on record to pull a white rabbit out of a top hat though this is also attributed to the much later John Henry Anderson.
  Comte owned the Théâtre Comte passage des Panoramas of the 2nd arrondissement of Paris and another one in the Passage Choiseul.
caption: Admission token Théâtre Comte, passage Choiseul, for a family of 4, obverse.
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