Cagliostro, aventurier, chimiste et magicien (1910)

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• 1910

The picture opens with Cagliostro in the laboratory of the alchemist, Athlotas, his instructor in magic. The latter predicts to his pupil that his fate is interwoven with that of a gypsy girl, Lorenza. Cagliostro first meets her in a safe, where he picks a quarrel with the Chevalier d'Oisement, who is conversing with her and wounds him in the duel that ensues. Lorenza tries to intervene between the duelists, but Cagliostro by mesmeric influence forces her to be still, and after carries her to his home, where seeing that she is an excellent hypnotic subject he compels her to act as a medium. Lorenza predicts the French revolution and the death of Marie Antoinette. Cagliostro, aided by Lorenza gains celebrity and repute, and is commanded to give an exhibition of his magic before the King, Louis XVI, and his Queen, Marie Antoinette. The latter, delighted with the strange wonderful things, requests to be allowed to read her own future in the crystal. Cagliostro refuses, but is compelled ...