Comus was the ancient Greek God of revels, festivity and chaos, the son and cup-bearer to Dionysus. From the same etymological root we derive the word for comedy. A fiiting stage name for Nicolas-Phillipe Ledru (1731-1807). His demonstrations encompassed the wonderful properties of nature (electricity, magnetism, sound waves, etc) as well as illusions and tricks we nowadays associate [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:36PM on November 3, 2012