Alexis Patri 2:00 p.m., January 29, 2022

At the microphone of Isabelle Morizet in the program "There is not just one life in life" on Saturday, the illusionist and mentalist Viktor Vincent looks back on his personal and professional journey.

And in particular on the very first number of magic which gave birth to the child that he was his passion for prestidigitation.

INTERVIEW

The mentalist and illusionist Viktor Vincent was 7 years old when, in a circus, he witnessed a magic trick for the first time. The experience, far from terrorizing him, will participate in pushing him towards his future job. A memory that he recounts on Saturday on Europe 1 at the microphone of Isabelle Morizet in the 

program There is not just one life in life

. "I remember it perfectly: the illusionist had a young lady who had locked her in a cold metal box. And then the flames coming out of it. A warmth that I feel all the way to the top of the stage", says he. Then he opened the box. Inside, a skeleton. But not a white skeleton of anatomy: a smoking black skeleton, dripping with flesh. It was wonderful. That to metroubled immediately."

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The illusionist then takes care, thanks to a stretcher, to go around the ring to clearly show the smoking skeleton to all the public.

"What's pretty crazy is that there was no so-called 'prestige': the person did not reappear.

In any case, not in my memory", adds Viktor Vincent.

A magical "big booster shot"

Fascinated by this trick, the 7-year-old boy returns home with the desire to understand how the trick could work.

"It started to tickle a part of my mind and it amused me a lot. The desire to know how things work animated me for a long time", explains the magician. 

Despite this first remarkable experience with magic, Viktor Vincent did not immediately have the vocation of a magician.

It is even chance that puts magic back on its way, a few years later.

"I signed up for an MJC to do a photography workshop. But there weren't enough cameras for everyone," he recalls.

"We offered to anyone who wanted to go to another discipline. I hear 'magical arts' and I tell myself that I will do photography later. That's where the virus started. I had had little bites before. But that was the big reminder. All of a sudden, I fell in love with the art of surprising and the art of lying."