Édouard Isidore Buguet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French photographer
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Place of Birth: Saint-Mard-de-Réno, Normandy, France
About Édouard Isidore Buguet
- Édouard Isidore Buguet (1840–1901) was a French medium and spirit photographer.Buguet became a "sensation" among spiritualists during the early 1870s.
- He was even loaned money to set up his own studio.
- In June 1875, a police sting operation in Paris discovered that Buguet's photographic plates had pre-exposed images on them.
- After the exposure, Buguet admitted in court that his photographs were fraudulent.
- He was convicted and served a year jail time.
- According to the magician Harry Houdini, the police discovered figures and doll heads at Buguet's studio.
- He had used these as his "spirit" extras.
- Houdini noted that although Buguet was exposed as a fraud and he had confessed, some spiritualists still insisted his spirit photographs were genuine.The English medium Stainton Moses had supported Buguet in an article for Human Nature in May 1875.
- After Burguet was exposed later in the same year, Moses insisted that Buguet was still a genuine medium and he had been bribed to make a false confession.
- The case has been cited by researchers as an example of spiritualists willing to believe and refusing to accept evidence of fraud.
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