A Magician Who Was Prosecuted for Fraud

There was a magician named jean maurice ttalazac. He started out in the circus but he was prosecuted at during the first o war. Was selling all sorts of am quite magical paraphernalia to people around the world. It's the kind of forerunner of what we see now, a if you're familiar with kind of inster witches and and people selling magical materials on line. Andt ounits a huge industry now. So finallyi just wanted to ask you what you think all this tells us about french society more wide.