Henri Descremps

Henri Decremps (1746-1826) was born in Beduer in Quercy, on April 1st, 1746, and died in Paris, towards 1826. Wire of Jean Decremps (born in 1710), royal notary with Figeac, and of Marie Gashes, it is the author of the Revealed White Magie , which drew up a list of the first techniques of cheating, like the false mixtures, the jumps of cut, gives it as a second… He was lawyer, mathematician and bachelor of law. He was attached to the Embassy of France near the Court of England in the capacity as secretary interprets.

In Magic white revealed - work which obtained a very great success at the time -, it gives to the explanation of all the experiments of the Knight Joseph Pinetti, claimed extremely skilful physicist but escamotor. It reveals all the card tricks there, goblet and gibecières etc… who made the recreation of the most distinguished companies then.

Its work

Revealed White Magic , Henri Decremps, Paris, 1784 (°).
Supplement with the Revealed White Magic , ibid, Paris, 1785 (°).
Will of Jerome Sharp, Professor de amusing Physique , ibid, Paris, 1786.
the Parisian one in London, or Opinion with the French who go to England, containing it parallel of both plus big cities of Europe, Amsterdam and Paris , ibid, 1784,2 vol. (réed. 1789).
Codicil of Jerome Sharp , ibid, 1788.
science without-culotisée. First test on the means of facilitating the study of astronomy and of operating a revolution in teaching , ibid, Paris, 1794.
small adventures of Jerome Sharp , ibid, Brussels and Liege, 1798.
chemical Diagrams, or Collection of 360 figures which briefly explain the experiments by the indication of the agents and the products beside the apparatus, and which make sensitive the theory of the phénomènes', ibid, Paris, 1822.

(°) These two works were republished in physical white Magie and recreations, Joseph Pinetti and Henri Descremps , integral republication of three books (Revealed White Magic (1784) of Henri Decremps, Physical Amusements (1784) of Joseph Pinetti, Supplément with the Revealed White Magic (1785) of Henri Decremps), annotated by Philippe the St. Lawrence, Editions Deluxe Joker, 1998.

Sources

Universal Biography Old and Modern , volume 10, page 262,1852, published by Michaud, published by A. Thoisnier Desplaces.
physical white Magic and recreations, Joseph Pinetti and Henri Descremps , Editions Deluxe Joker, 1998. This Work gives a biography detailed on Joseph Pinetti and Henri Descremps, realized by Philippe the St. Lawrence.

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