Lenormand was a fortune-teller in France in the 19th century. She was hugely influential, because despite her work being illegal, very important and powerful people consulted her for cartomancy readings.
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Adelaide lynn are more on my list as a potential october topic. Listener John requested an episode on her back in twenty nineteen, but I don't think she may
answer. My shortlist right away, le Norma, was
fortune teller in france in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and for multiple years now, I've been in this pattern.
Where I pencil herein for late october and then some other stuff comes up and shuffles the schedule around, and then I go away
october is gonna, be over, and I put the topic aside and that has been kind of a relief every year, because this one has some stumbling blocks in the research. It is way easier to find
The information on le norman cardamon see decks which are named for her and if, with one exception, everyone I have heard talk about. These decks has talked about them, saying it le norman's, not le normal, as though
Her french way easier to find information on the decks, though than on her and a lot of the information that is out. There is contradictory or it can't be substantiated or both one partition
article about her was printed in multiple publication, starting around eighteen, forty five, and that seems to be the source for a lot of basic information. One of those public aid,
tens was chambers, is edinburgh journal and it included. This editors note quote the above
Article is communicated by an english gentleman residing in france. We would be understood as not pledging ourselves for the literal.
correctness of all its statements, though
Neither have we any reason to doubt, but it has been prepared from the best sources of information which
may be available in the case, that is to say just now.
If not a ringing endorsement of the accuracy of the whole thing and that sort of the foundation that this whole episode is built on so anyway, this year I decided, let's go for it.
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Marie anne isler lewd, no more was born and Alan song in normandy region of france on may twenty seven, seventeen, seventy two:
Her father was a draper name, jean louis and twond, linda among and her mothers.
was marie and do bear, she was the
list of their three children, with the younger sister and brother and today
you will see the families last name as
linen mon or, as Tracy said in relation to the cardamon, see decks linen
mind all one word, but you will also see in a historical record as LE nor moaned, with the lower part being its own word. The article the summaries father died when she was
a child and her mother remarried. But then her mother also died leaving Marie and her siblings as orphans in the care of their new step father when he,
you re married though he and his wife wanted to start a family of their own, so Marie and her sister were sent to live in a series of benedictine convents and their brother eventually join the military. Their stepfather seems to have supported them financially, but otherwise they didn't really have much of a relationship.
Marie first started predicting the future while living at one of these convents, the eighteen. Fifty eight book remarkable women of different,
patients in ages by J P, drew it described it. This way quote
was in the house of the benedictines that mademoiselle commenced her vocation by predicting that the support
Rare would soon be deprived of her office, for which ill
putting the young lady was subjected to punishment and underwent a penance, but the event soon justified. The prediction
In other words, the abbess was indeed removed and Marie also predicted various details about her successor from there
marie started learning everything she cared about, divination prophecy and fortune, telling here's how frank boot goodrich described it in his eighteen. Fifty seven book on the court of napoleon,
she versed herself thoroughly in the annals of greek and roman oracles in those of the gallic druids of the profits of the of the heat
grew philosophers and of the miracle workers of antiquity. She studied the interpretation of dreams and the doctrines of second sight and at the age of twelve, was a complete adapt and the practice of judicial astrology when the drawing of horoscopes than in the comedy
and of catalyst figures. She examined the mysteries of the white of eggs and the grounds of coffee, but only to reject them she and
I heard what degree of confidence was to be placed in the assertions of plato, Aristotle and Plutarch that socrates or told the principal events of his
life, and in that of tacitus that tiberius and marcus aurelius expounded dreams. She investigated the cures affected
in the middle ages by amulets and the relics of saints and the power of healing the kings. Evil said to have been possessed by the kings of france since the time
Clovis hey if you're thinking, what does healing the king's evil mean yeah good news. You can look forward to a saturday classic that will explain that, or maybe you've been listening to the show for a long time,
you're now already know that line selwyn marie was about fourteen. She started to worry that she might never have a life beyond the convent
she really did not want to become a nun. Her step father was living in paris and she asked if he could find her a situation there.
He got a job working at a millinery shop where she learned to sew and decorate hats and also how to run a business and keep the accounts. She also continued her study of divination
shooting developing her own methods for palm reading and cargo nancy in
seventeen. Eighty nine, just before Murray turned seventeen the estates general.
he d, versailles. For the first time since sixteen fourteen
dates. General was an assembly for representatives from the three states that is the clergy, the nobility and commoners and kingly with us
Sixteenth had summoned them to try to find a solution to France's financial problems, including
an enormous budget deficit
marie made her first major prediction in connection to this assembly and the words of frank boot. Goodrich quote she foretold the day.
I'm fall of that monarchy, which numbered eight centuries of existence. The dispersion of the clergy and the suppression of the convent
adverse versailles. The three states disagreed over how to vote the third estate
or the commoners was the most numerous. So voting purely by
Number almost certainly meant that the third estate would get its way, but in voting took place by a state than the clergy.
Billowy, which were already more powerful and wealthier than the commoners could band together to outvote them.
This assembly ended on june seventeenth, when the third estate redefined themselves as the national assembly representing the people of france. This was
a moment at the start of the french revolution, which of course did led to the downfall of the french monarchy,
All of the uncertainty and chaos around the french revolution meant that a lot of people from all walks of life were seeking reassurance and guidance from fortune tellers.
In the words of an anonymously written peace from eighteen, forty five linen raul quote found the troubles of the times which
hinged the minds of all around her and filled them
alarm and anxiety, very propitious to her views, even though
fortune telling was high demand. It was also
legal when, where he was
twenty, she started working with and studying under a fortune, teller name. Louise you bear who she may have been
eighty two on her mother's side, both of these women faced, multiple arrests
fortune telling, but they also had some very powerful clients who were able to get them released,
one of the normans clients during these troubled times, was marie trans. Louise of savoy, princess Adela bow the friend and confidant of marie antoinette, according to some accounts, lunar mall and the princess conspired to free marie antoinette from prison, and this led little more to be arrested and jailed. It's possible that this is an embellishment though, and its imprisonment was just one of the times that she was arrested for four,
in telling Marie tran was imprisoned in august of seventeen. Ninety two and then was murdered not long after that during the september, massacres in which more than one thousand people were killed in prisons around paris, la Norma, reportedly foretold the princesses very
gruesome death in seventeen. Ninety two linen moaned also reportedly had a session with revolutionary
figures. Jean Paul Maximilian two hopes Pierre
and louie descend Joost she for
old merits imminent death and said that ropes, pierre and such joost would die quote at the hands of an indignant people, they did not
kicker seriously until Murat was assassinated on July. Thirteen. Seventeen. Ninety three when robes
aaron Sams just returned to live normal. After that she reportedly told them quote
but be devoured by their own work and become victims of the
Letty drama, which they were themselves enacting. Acting when relationship with her most famous client reportedly started during one of her imprisonments during the revolution, and we will get to that after a sponsor break.
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Held at la force prison starting in seventeen, ninety four, Marie
the end, lindorm received a letter from a woman who was being held at cairo prison that was marinos F rose to share wife of alexander de barney. Roses husband had been arrested as an enemy of the revolution.
and then a few weeks later rose had been imprisoned as well, largely because of her connections to him and his associates,
you ve, heard about the normal skill divination from one of the other prisoners,
and she and several of the others, had pulled everything together that they would need for her to draw up their horoscopes. They convinced guards to smuggle these notes from cars to laforce
the normal wrote back to rose that she was going to soon suffer the greatest of calamities, but that she would survive
and then quote, marry a man destined to attain the loftiest, dignities and astonished the world.
Rose was, of course, the future Josephine bonaparte's alexander,
A debit bow, nay, was gayety on July, twenty third, seventeen. Ninety four rose was released from prison
a few days later. After maximilian, the clubs, Pierre was beheaded on July. Twenty seventh, at the end
if the reign of terror,
Louis designs used to live among had also predicted, would be devoured by his own work was guillotined. The following day rose, who was not yet connected to napoleon and who did not have josephine as part of her name had gotten her fortune told once
the child in martinique, according to the Normans accounts of Josephine's life, this fortune, teller, named you femmina, had told rose that she would marry twice that her first husband would die and leave her with two helpless children, and that then her second husband would quote, fill the world with his glory and subject a great many nations to his power. You femmina also said that road,
would become an eminent woman. At this point roses first husband was dead, as you phemius had foretold and
arose in her husband had not been
at all, happy together being,
the widow with two children to support could be interpreted as a calamity, so
I went to learn, amongst alone on route, at your known to try to get more information on this
eight marriage that each of the fortune teller said suggested she would have and she took
friend with her both of them
disguised as ladys maids get a lot of people reportedly went to see her in disguise because of the whole illegality.
Worked in telling the normal apparently thought, through their disguises immediately and told rose that not only would she marry well, but that one day she would become empress. Fixed, analyzed version of the scene appears in alexandria, Duma pairs. Eighteen, ninety four novel
first republic or the whites in the blues and that novel when Lindore Montel sir this in response Josephine, says empress. I you are my
add my dear lineaments popularity and that of other fortune tellers continued to grow after the end of the reign of terror through the thermidor
reaction that followed and into the establishment of the french first republic. In seventeen. Ninety five
some of these popularity was connected to the years of violence, upheaval and change that everyone had been living through people
we're just looking for reassurance and for some kind of idea of what they might expect to happen next, the other the level of irony here that because France also saw itself as this like pillar of rational enlightenment, people are really into fortune telling. Well that's why it was illegal.
For a lot of people, though, in addition to what colleague just said, there was also just a sense that france had gone through a revolution and the follow the monarchy and then a massive wave of violence and death only to wind up with a situation that wasn't actually that much better than it had been before. So people looked back to earlier times and bygone traditions with a sense of nostalgia, and that includes the idea that something might be found in ancient wisdom to restore a social and political balance. This also meant that fortune tellers and consists in france were often, but not always drawing more from alternate readings of biblical texts and classical works, so things that could be seen as already part,
in french history and heritage, rather than from sources that seemed really knew or strange or bizarre rose, had trouble supporting herself and her children after she was released from prison. But she continued
consult, linen mon schumann
hence my primarily by having affairs was wealthy men who are willing to support her in her family and then in seven
Ninety five. She meant napoleon bonaparte who she married in seventeen ninety,
It was through him that she became known as Josephine. That is probably
mc name. He gave to her may be based on her name of malaysia, safe flows allegedly
a josephine took napoleon to see linen long after they meant and lindorm.
And told him. He would gain battles, maria widow, conquer kingdoms, distribute thrones
danish the world and finally die in exile,
actually in eighteen, o four napoleon declared himself emperor and Josephine became empress of the french. She kept
salting le normand extensively, both before and after becoming empress. Talk to her,
on her own life and her husband's political and military pursuits and the Normans own account Josephine described it as a small folly to believe her predictions, but a greater one to doubt. What
He said in remarkable women of different nations and ages after jpg. Road of this quote josephine, as is generally known, was a firm believer in auguries and prophetic. Intimations, the early predictions of her future greatness and its termination has been so frequently repeat,
without receiving any contradiction that it has become a fact which no one questions and would easily account for the firm faith she repose.
Did the oracles of mademoiselle enormous to whom she concept
they sent to ask amidst other questions. Explanation
and respecting the dreams of napoleon, and when the latter, pretty
did any new enterprise. The empress never fail to consult the reader futurity as to its results. Do it went on to say quote to the disasters of the russian campaign? It is said were clearly predicted by mad. Was that letter mall, and it was from her also that Josephine received the first intimations
the divorce, which was in contemplation, which premature revelation, unfortunately, for the author s procured for her an interview with fishing,
so for shea was Joseph roget minister of police. As aside note, someone who's been on my list
While there are a lot of accounts of le normally foretelling of napoleon's divorce from Josephine and how it might have led to.
Problems for liner moment in one account on may second,
eighteen o one le normal met with Josephine chateau d, amazon and told her quote. You cherish projects madame for the advancement of your husband. Take
here. If he should ever grasp the sceptre of the wild, he would abandon you, for he is ambitious.
Nevertheless, you are destined to enact the first part in france and the day is not far off. Josephine continued to consult the normal for years,
and in october of eighteen, o nine lindorm all reportedly predicted that something nefarious would happen on December sixteenth, that is the day the Senate adopted a decree dissolving the civil
areas of napoleon and Josephine. That is something they had each agreed to the day before and some account
napoleon had liniment jailed when he heard about this specific prediction and that while she was in solitary confinement, she quote ox,
hide her leisure by the education of spirits, but
as is the case with many things about lenore malls life. The time
I I'm here is a little fuzzy and there some questions about whether her arrest was really connected to that divorce prediction it.
Absolutely true. That napoleon did not like Josephine's consultations with a fortune teller or
le normally influence on her, but the
so december, fifteenth and sixteenth were not a surprise to Josephine, at all napoleon
told her. He was going to divorce her at least two weeks before, because she had not borne him a son
in a burglar normal published in eighteen fourteen, she claimed to a first predicted the divorce in eighteen, o, seven but
a clear whether that really happened, even if it did rumours about a pass
divorce were already circulating by then and Joseph. He wrote a letter in eighteen, o seven saying
our morale marshal of france and
lions brother in law was trying to
napoleon to divorce her. The normans connections to Josephine had, of course, bolstered her popularity. She was fortune teller to the emperor of the french.
That connection was gone after the formal ceremony of divorce that took place on january tenth of eighteen ten, but it doesn't seem like the end of Josephine's marriage to napoleon
ily affected letterman's popularity at all, possibly because people thought she had successfully predicted. All of that, we are going
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In eighteen, twelve, two years after Josephine,
and then Napoleon's marriage officially ended
Marie anne, when I'm all met with fortune, not a humphreys wife of Alexander humphreys, alexander and then with Alexander himself.
alexander and his father had gone to france during the piece of Amelia and eighteen o two and then made wound up stuck there when hostile
What he's resumed in eighteen, o three based on
Emily lore from his mother alexander,
There are believed he should be the next earl of sterling, even though that title had passed on to other people.
when he consulted with lend our mall, she told him that he would go through a series of trials and difficulties, but that he would attain distinction,
an opulence alexander and his wife were ongoing clients of le normal for the next thirty years, and this led to a very long and convoluted series of events involving forged documents. The pope
but supported alexander's claims to the sterling peerage
of these was a map of canada with writing on the back, some of which was attributed to kingly. We, the fifteenth linen
long gave this map tat alexander, saying it had been left by two people who had come in for a reading the day before
earth between one or more and humphreys alexander, were used as evidence in a court case focusing on seventeen forged documents that he was using to try to make this case that he had this legitimate claim. Ultimately, a jury found that the documents had been forged, but not that
humphreys, alexander or when our mind had created those forgeries or even knew that they were forgeries seriously. This is so drawn out. It could be its own up.
Though I dont know if it will, because the book of court documents about it is five hundred pages long, and I I founded dizzying to try to make sense of
it is not clear whether the normal was involved in making these forgeries or how much her predictions influenced.
I'm alexander's decisions, as he pursued his claim to the title
napoleon was forced to abdicate, the throne in april of eighteen. Fourteen folly
weighing his failed invasion of russia and other nations form
the six coalition to fight against him. He was so
into exile on the island of elbow
le norman, having predicted the failed invasion and napoleon's downfall, started
bring even more powerful clients, including tsar alexander, the first of russia when he was in paris after napoleon's defeat, see also started writing in publishing books some on fortune telling in the occult and eventually eight two volume, the historical and secret memoirs of the empress. Josephine Josephine died of pneumonia on may twenty, ninth eighteen fourteen before any of the normans work about her was published. So she was not there to confirm or deny any thing that when our mall wrote,
out her, but Josephine's daughter or tolls, described this book as absurd napoleon's exile on elbow was brief and he returned to paris in march of eighteen fifteen. This kicked off a period known as the hundred days, which ended when kingly the eighteenth was restored to the throne. Angela
the eighth eighteen fifteen. The battle of Waterloo took place during this period and after napoleon's defeat and the restoration of the monarchy, he was exit
to the island of Saint Helena, surgeon
Area MIRA, wrote about this in napoleon in exile or a voice from Santa Lena, which incur
it's a passage in which napoleon tried to dispel the idea that he was an atheist accord?
to a mere and napoleon said quote. Man has need,
something wonderful, it is better for him to seek it.
In religion. That, in
was a little nor, in spite of her connection to Josephine
it seems like lindorm all was always at heart, a royal list and a supporter of the bourbon monarchs she claimed to have discovered prophecies about the bourbon restoration. One was known as the prophecy of or vile, which supposedly dated two the sixteenth century and was written in the style of no sir
Amis was interpreted as foretelling, the rise of napoleon and a young bourbon prince being restored to the throne with the help of a great warrior. However, this whole thing seems to have been a fabrication.
And let no man continued to see clients in paris through the eighteen, teens and twentys, and we have a law
I account of what these sessions were like, because fortune telling,
was illegal. Her business was registered as a bookshop with a sign out front that red madmen,
Let no more liberal, I am a court.
To at least one eyewitness accounts. Actual readings happen in a room behind a secret panel to avoid detection by the police. The entry room that peoples
when entering the building, was also furnished to keep from attracting suspicion. Reese how grow now? Who is a military officer and a member of parliament who was also
described as a danby and a writer of reminiscences described it, as quote plainly, but comfortably furnished with books, the newspapers about, as one sees them added dentists but in frank,
Boot good reaches words. The room where actual readings took place was another matter entirely quote. The visit
to the dwelling of the python. Ass was shown into a room in which books prince paintings, stuffed animals.
musical and other instruments bottle
swift, lizards and snakes and spirits wax fruits, artificial flowers and a medley of nameless articles covered the walls,
table in the floor, leaving the I scarcely an unoccupied spot to rest upon the furniture of the cabinet of consultation, was in maple. The walls were adorned with portraits of the bourbons, with a painting by groups of great value and with her own porter.
By isabel. Her cards, which were of large size and covered with colored hieroglyphics were painted by car van, nay python ass. If you're wondering is decisive, archaic word for fortune, teller or fear,
something similar grow now makes this room sound, even creep. Here quote the walls of the room were covered with huge bats nailed by their wings to the feelings, stuffed owls cabalistic signs skeletons, in short, everything that was likely to impress a week or superstitious mind. I think this
Graham sounds amazing. I'm like how can I re create this reuben, my home
We also have various eye witness accounts of what lindorm oh did during a reading. Grow now describes
earth spreading out. Several packs of cards quote with all kinds of strange figures and ciphers depicted on them. Her first quest
and uttered in a deep voice was whether you would have the ground or procedure
was merely a matter of form. She then inquired your age
what was the color and the animal. You preferred then came in an authority
a voice. The word who pay repeated at intervals till the requisite number of cards from the various packs were selected,
and placed in rows side by side. No further questions were asked and no attempt was made to discover who or what you were,
or to watch upon your countenance the effect of the revelations she neither
prophesied, smooth things to you nor tried to excite your fears, but seemed really to boot.
Even her own power she and for
To me that I was a military air that I should be twice married and have several children.
And foretold. Many other events which have also come to pass, though I did not at the time
If one word of the symbols prediction diarist frances, lady Shelly, gave a similar account quotes
on a large table under a mirror were heaps of cards with which she commenced her mysteries. She bade me cut them in small packets, with my left hand
to then inquired my age Abu pray, my day of birth, the first letter of my name and the first letter of the name of the place where I was born
he asked me what animal color and number I was most partial too. I answered all these questions without hesitation after
a quarter of an hour of this memory, during which time she had arranged all the cards. In order upon the table, she made an examination of my head. Suddenly she began
and in a sort of measured prose and with great rapidity and distinct articulation to describe my character and past life in which she was so accurate and so successful even to my new particulars. But I was spellbound at the manner in which she had discovered all
new lynn, armonk predictions for lady Shelly started with you will
and be ill, but it will pass and she fell
did at the opera that night and considered that first prediction to be verified by the time she recorded it in her diary. Yes, since it was a diary, time had not passed enough yet for that entries have anything else. Besides the fainting at the opera past,
cast subject, washington, irving, traveled around europe and the late eighteen twenties, and his journals from this period include anecdotes about le normal from some of his acquaintances. One was henry bollworm british secretary of delegation to found her quote prone to put questions and draw hints and conclusions from the reply
the other was alexander Florian Joseph Colonna count velocity. Who was this
napoleon and maria of alaska. He said that he had gone to the normal
knowing that a woman he was involved with was planning to get a reading from her. He paid Leah normal. To tell this woman specific things in that reading and according to irving, journals quote the ladys fortune, past and future was told in a manner to astonish her and
lately to the advantage of MR v. After the July revolution of eighteen, thirty louie felipe became king of the french and the government of france was established as a constitutional monarchy. It seems that
After this point, lunar mon retired from fortune telling she bought
I am a house and Alan saw where she had been born
people ask her to read their fortunes.
Said that she only did that in paris
the normal, never married or had children and one source described her as never desiring or thinking about it. She also outlived both of her siblings. She had premonitions about her brothers death in service to the french army and was in full.
That he had been killed after she had already bought her morning clothes. She predicted that she would live to a very old age in some sources that was a hundred and eight and in others a hundred and twenty four, but she died in paris on june twenty fifth eighteen, forty three at the age of seventy one
she's buried at perilous as cemetery, all of her belongings went to her one surviving relative, her sisters.
Alex Alexander. Let you go home.
described as devoutly catholic
it becomes very wealthy, owning several properties and a very significant art collection, and he kept all of this, but he burned her occult materials, including her divination cards,
It seems, like other people, had already started capitalizing on le normally name while she was still living. For example, a book published in.
Wish in london in eighteen. Twenty five was titled, the oracle of human destiny or the unerring for teller of future events and accurate interpreter of mystical signs and in
whence is through the medium of common cards. This was attributed to
I am the normal professor, the celestial science at paris. It included a preface a method for doing card, readings and meetings for a set of fifty two cards, but this plan is
is signed victory, the normal, which was not a name that she actually used and the biographical details from this preface purport.
We written by the author are just totally different from anything else, written about one or
I was not able to figure out other history about this working kit where it came from, but it's so associated with lineaments name, that thereof,
digital copies of it floating around the internet that like definitively list her as the author,
After she died, people started printing divination cards using her name
look how Gilles de mademoiselle de la mon came out two years after she died. Joe is the french word for name,
This includes fifty four cards and was developed by Madame plateau, who claimed she had been Lou normal student, another deck that petite lenore mall, which again I mostly heard people call the lamb normand was created in germany in eighteen, forty five and includes thirty six cards, and this is the one between those two. That's probably the more well known today,
Each of the cards in this deck has a specific set of meetings and during a reading they are combined to create a sentence or a series of sentences. Practitioners usually describe this as a more straightforward and direct reading than something like taro, which can involve more subjective interpretation of the symbolism of the cards rather than spin.
thick meanings assigned to each of them. Lou normal was incredibly famous and influential in france during her lifetime, but
reputation among other figures within France's occult revival, seems to have been mixed
honestly, we weaken stone known by the pseudonym elephants leave. I was a big figure in france's nineteenth century occult revival.
And he described her. This way quote
mademoiselle de no more, the most celebrated of our modern fortune tellers was unacquainted with the science of taro ornament. Only by derivation from Algeria, whose
explanations are shadows cast upon a background of late
She knew neither high magic nor the cabal love, but her head was filled with ill digested area addition him. She was in
would have by instinct, which deceived her rarely the work she left behind her our legitimacy, tomfoolery ornamented with classical
quotations, but her oracles, inspired by the presence and magnetism of those who consulted her were often astounding.
He was a woman in whom extravagance of imagination and mental rambling were substituted for the natural affections of her sex.
She lived and died a virgin like the ancient druidism of the isle of same hadn't.
Sure endowed her with beauty. She might have played easily at a remoter epoch, the part of a mellow scene or a valid I or, to put it more simply. Another commentator who was paraphrased by frank boot goodrich, summed her up, as quote which or no which a certain share of admiration will always be due to her for having contrived to be believed in an age which neither believed, and god in his angels, nor in the devil and his
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