Is it anybody who has this new big
'French' Mentalism Encyclopedia,
5 volumes a´ 250 pages?
If yes, any good effect`s?
Who is the author?

Looks like a huge source for mentalists...if you can read french.

http://www.francemagie.com/boutique/article.asp?code=LENCYL1

Michel Weber is the author.
Unfortunately I don't have the books. The content of each volume seems to be pretty good though.

Where can we find more information about each volume?

The problem is that the author didn't ask the originals authors the permission to use the articles.
It's an articles compilation of the magazine Exortisma.

Svengali,
You can find more information about each volume here : http://www.francemagie.com/boutique/list......ntalisme

If any publisher read this post: translate it to english. I think many mentalists/magicians would buy it.

Is it this Michel Weber who´s the author?
http://michelweber.ifrance.com/michelweber/

Bofx,any chance of translating those web pages to english and posting them here?
I know that I will be very greatful!

Free Online Translating Tool:

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

I'll translate them for you guys if you want. As I speak french it will be better than this internet translator (I tried it and the translation is quite funny actually lol)

just give me some time and I'll get back to you with the translation.

Great!many many thanks....

Here is the translation. There is some thing that I had some hard time to translate but I hope it all makes sense.

"In this encyclopedia, you’ll find all that you always wanted to know about mentalism. Once you’ll get your hand on the knowledge included there, you’ll be able to build your own professional act and impress even the more skeptics. In this work, all the style are covered: stage, close-up, card mentalism, the living room, the natural brain possiblities and even more, each as mysterious as the other.

Each volume of this encyclopedia is around 250 pages of A4 format ( 8½ X 11 inches) on ivory paper. Hard black cover with an original design."

Volume 1:

Mnemonic techniques
1 of 5 objects divination
ESP symbol divination
Marker force
Coin bending
Fire divination
How to beat 12 people at chess
Cold reading, mentalism and moral/ethic
Mentalism ala Vallarino style
In memory of Charles Reiser
Genie in the bottle
Haunted dollar bill (or haunted billet)
The perfect mentalist kit
PK pen
Haunted key
Nail writing
Ashes card
Cold Reading 2
Card prediction
Medium strike
Spec has supernatural powers
Fear
Reymond’s system
Horoscope
Alpha-numerologie
Triple coincidence
Touch reading
Cuberlandisme
Fire of the sky
Clairvoyance
Mathematique curiosity
Dare!
The Pendulum
Pythagore’s matche
Neutral language
Cluedo
Ouija board
Tell a thought of number
The strange Anna Néprus
My name is Bond, James Bond
Trust me
Mathematique curiosity
Teacher’s phantom
Zini force
Singularity of constant numbers

Volume 2:

Lolek and Bolek
Prodigy multiplicator
E.S.Pizza
Blindfolds
ESP prediction
Ebacam’s spirit
Cold Reading 4
Psychokinesis
Slate prediction
Broken message
The reverand Etmoc Alucard effect
12 Europa
Chemistry
Who killed the witch?
Humphrey and Loraine
Dice prediction
Thought transmitter
Spirit communication
Memory of inactive objects
Triple test
Haunted Dictaphone
Phone medium
Second version
Sight vocabulary
The trick without trick
Impossible dream
Your sight’s cheating you
Cold Reading 5
Pencil reading
The talking glass
Money consideration
Master’s secret
Time to kill
Dream or nightmare?
Premonition experience
Mysterious chessboard
Cagliostro addition
Show me your watch
Book test
Zodiac sign divination
Psychological forces
It’s all in your head
Living room mentalism
Publicity mentalism
French comedy
Impromptu prediction
Buddha’s chips
Nikola’s beads
Mathematique divination
Spiritism

Volume 3:

Cold Reading 6
Star system
Dice predictions
Canterburry’s bishop
I know what you’re thinking
Three words in a book
Flaguenmuch
Sympathic ink
Flowers’ smell
Is 37 magical?
Progressive anagram 2
Progressive anagram 3
I tear, therefore I am
Bent key
Truth serum
Slate spirit ESP
Divination Made in Canada
Dice’s phantom
Number prediction
Fatidic year
Mind reading
Cold reading: shaking hand
Psy ESP spoon
Premonition
Psychometry and double sight
Sell yourself
One against all
You said it dude!
Ultra coincidence
Blue card
Mental communication
No luck
Guess someone’s age
260 Q prediction
Blind Foil Vision
Name coincidence
Archer’s force
How to talk to people
Playing cards’ history
Zaharoff’s number
Medium is in the library
In memory of N.A. Niedenberger
ESP coincidence
Cold Reading
Incomprehensible
Mathematique curiosity
Budget mentalism
Predict one ace out of those 4
Imaginary mentalism
Salomon’s seal
Double suggestion
Prediction
Summary of volume 1,2 and 3

Volume 4:

Spiritism: physical phenomenon
Mental phenomenon
Psychic phenomenon
Develop your creativity
Anytime, anywhere prediction
Rain Man
Intuition
“Stop, you’re killin’ me!”
Mental prediction
1 on 20
1 on 26 000
How and where your spectators are sitting
The furniture-remover made a mistake
If that isn’t withcraft...
Dead and alive
Chessboard’s turn
Psycho Fax
Fire Geller
Key to happiness
A burning revelation
Rebel drawing
Mental trio
Front line of ESP
The two jokers
Direct reading
Brainstorming
Runes applications
Karto rune
Runor domino
Runes Runforc
James Rune
Fox Rune
Nymble Rune
Cendro Rune
Kruskal Tarot
Destiny’s Rune
Another one
Phantomatic
A funny recreation
Cold Reading: cigarettes
My turn by phone
Russian Roulette
E=MC2
Mind reading
Star System
The unbelievable cell phone
List of stores
Pseudo medium
How to get informations
Ultra prediction
The fire-balloon
Enveloppes on the rope
The fortune-teller
Magic squares without memory
Summary of volume 1, 2, 3 and 4

Volume 5:

Disc prediction
The old mentalist
The ring game
Gnafron
Here’s my card
Become an hypnotist
Equivoque choice
Kheops’ pyramid
Cold Reading: arms
Sealed crease
Forcing the 7 with a meter-ruler
List of french stores
Telepathy techniques
The longest word
Symbolic
Coincidence
The mysterious bottle
Psychometry
Money doesn’t have smell
Spirit’s property
Stage telepathy
Telepathy with cards
The envelope’s mystery
Cold Reading: study of the sight
Mental calendar
O’Maley
Telepathy techniques
Osiris’ seal
Psychokinesis
The palindrome
You win if you want
Mental power
The pile of books
Spirit reading
Mathematique curiosity
Number’s divination
Cupid’s arrow
Presidential telepathy
It could be useful
Prediction’s box
Stage prediction
Card of visit
No No
Box Offfice
Impossible telepathy
Mind influence
The kiss
Card through ceiling
Slate telepathy
Slate prediction
Summary of the 5 volumes

Volume 6:

Russian Roulette 2
Impromptu message
A historic bend
A crazy book test
A flaming prediction
Triangle
Funny recreation: matches trick
Pieces of the chessboard
Put that in the trash
The three glasses
The bill paradox
Marienbad’s bet
I don’t know anything about cards
Marcel’s clip
Fire-flash
Telepathy isn’t that hard
Albertest
“Pair”ception
Zim boum
Had to think of it
What a coincidence
The invulnerable matche
The magnetic magnet
Haunted coffee spoon
Mentalo
Three matches’ box
Cold Reading on the field
Edgar’s system
Mathematique curiosity
Cold Reading
22 I said 22
Picture mentalism
Bertholus’ socks
Psycho-mentalism
Cube experience
The 5 books trick
Estimating cutting
Numerologia
ESP cube
It’s not good to lie
Number force
Duo ESP
Headline newspaper
“L’amour, toujours l’amour” (love, always love)
ESP prediction
Astralogie
Page force
Dico-test
Furtive sight
Already thought of
Telepathic book
Mini dico
Final Word
Close-up
ESP book
Knowing the phone index
Mathematique curiosity: double numbers
Epistolary force
Pyromaniac
Cold Reading

Thanks Party boy. What a list. Someone gotta translate these into ENglish and off they go to the bookshelves!

Wow, thank you for taking the time to do this for us!

So what do we have to do to get the ball rolling on an English translation, just sit around and wait a few years?

If as bofx says, it is a compilation of articles from the magazine Exortisma, then contact the magazine for rights to re-publish...

http://exortisma.ifrance.com/exortisma/

EXORTISMA
66 C1 Bd Pasteur 06000 Nice (France)
gregory.weber@wanadoo.fr

Thanks much for translating that, looks like a great set (now if it could just get translated into English and sold over here).

Any word as of late about these books?