” VS’is not Gérard Majax, this evening, Madame Le Pen, we are talking about lives behind, the life of our traders, of our craftsmen, that’s it, the Covid debt, you voted against, ”claimed Emmanuel Macron facing his rival during the debate between the two rounds, Wednesday April 20. In a few moments, the name of Gérard Majax then made the rounds of social networks. Who was he ? During the 1970s and 1980s, the magician had become the television star of his profession. In an interview conducted by Thierry Ardissson, in December 2010 on the show Everyone talked about it and broadcast since by the INA on Youtube, the presenter of “There’s a trick” said “absolutely” to believe at the beginning of his career in the ability of magicians to transmit their thoughts and to levitate. It all started for him in his early years, when he bought street vendors at the Saint-Ouen flea market to show off to his friends and family, before learning about the occult and parapsychology as a teenager.
He then realizes that the masters of the strange he meets do not have supernatural powers, but do use “tricks”: “I would have liked to believe it, but it was divided into two: first special effects, often even crude […], and psychology. From his majority, he continued his studies at the Institute of Psychology at the Sorbonne, to learn how to condition the spectators of his tricks, “better understand the relationship between the artist, the illusionist and the public”. Gérard Majax then gives conferences to demystify the charlatans who use special effects without saying so and adorn themselves with supernatural powers. After his meeting with Eddie Barclay, he shows his tricks to the celebrities of the moment.
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Majax, “true social phenomenon”
Faced with Thierry Ardisson, he prides himself on having performed in front of “Jack Nicholson like Alain Delon”. Gérard Majax quickly breaks through on the small screen, becoming a “true social phenomenon” according to the man in black, who cradles “so many spectators”, from “the child to the elderly through the intellectual”. At that time, everyone wanted to acquire the Majax magician’s case, the kit marketed by the first man to organize a first hidden camera filmed on the theme of magic. A Proust madeleine, resuscitated by the president-candidate during the great debate.
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