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Marie Anne Lenormand

Marie Anne Lenormand


Marie Anne Lenormand

Born

Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand 27 May 1772 Alenon, Normandy, France 25 June 1843 (aged71) Paris, le-de-France, France

Died

Nationality France Occupation Fortune teller, writer Parents Jean Louis Antoine Lenormand, Marie Anne Lenormand (ne Gilbert)

Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand (17721843) was a French professional fortune-teller, active for more than 40 years and of considerable fame during the Napoleonic era. Lenormand claimed to have given cartomantic advice to many famous persons, among them leaders of the French revolution (Marat, Robespierre and St-Just), Empress Josephine and Czar Alexander. In 1814 Lenormand started a second literary career and published many texts, causing many public controversies. Lenormand was imprisoned more than once, though never for very long. In France Lenormand is considered the greatest cartomancer of all time, highly influential on the wave of French cartomancy that began in the late 18th century.

Early life
Lenormand was born on 27 May 1772 in Alenon, Normandy, to Jean Louis Antoine Lenormand, a draper, and Marie Anne Lenormand (ne Gilbert). Lenormand was orphaned at the age of five and educated in a convent school. Lenormand left Alenon for Paris in 1786.[1]

Death
Lenormand died in Paris on 25 June 1843 and is buried in Division 3 of Pre Lachaise Cemetery.[2][3]

Works
Les souvenirs prophtiques d'une sibylle sur les causes secrtes de son arrestation - Paris (1814) (592 pages) Anniversaire de la mort de l'impratrice Josephine (1815) La sibylle au tombeau de Louis XVI (1816) Les oracles sibyllins ou la suite des souvenirs prophtiques - Paris (1817) (528 pages) La sibylle au congrs d'Aix-la-Chapelle (1819) (316 pages)

Marie Anne Lenormand Mmoires historiques et secrets de l'impratrice Josphine, Marie-Rose Tascher-de-la-Pagerie, premire pouse de Napolon Bonaparte - Paris (1820) (556 pages) Mmoire justificatif prsent par Mlle Le Normand (1821) (20 pages) Cri de l'honneur (1821) (18 pages) Souvenirs de la Belgique - Cent jours d'infortunes o le procs mmorable (1822) (416 pages) L'ange protecteur de la France au tombeau de Louis XVIII (1824) L'ombre immortelle de Catherine II au tombeau d'Alexandre Ier (1826) L'ombre de Henri IV au palais d'Orlans (1830) (107 pages) Le petit homme rouge au chteau des Tuileries - Paris (1831) (107 pages) Manifeste des dieux sur les affaires de France (1932) (60 pages) Arrt suprme des dieux de l'Olympe en faveur de Mme. la duchesse de Berry et de son fils (1833) (144 pages) Possibly author of Histoire de Jean VI. de Portugal, depuis sa naissance jusqu' sa mort en 1826. - Paris : Ponthieu, 1827

Lenormand cards
After Lenormand's death her name was used on several cartomancy decks including a deck of 36 illustrated cards known as the Petit Lenormand or simply Lenormand cards still used extensively today. The 36 card Lenormand deck is modelled on a deck of cards published c1799 as part of Das Spiel der Hoffnung (The Game of Hope), a game of chance designed by Johann Kaspar Hechtel of Nuremberg.[4][5][6][7][8]

References
[1] Decker, Ronald; Depaulis, Thierry; Dummett, Michael (1996). A Wicked Pack of Cards: The Origins of the Occult Tarot. London: Gerald Duckworth and Company. p.119. ISBN9780715627136. [2] Decker, Ronald; Depaulis, Thierry; Dummett, Michael (1996). A Wicked Pack of Cards: The Origins of the Occult Tarot. London: Gerald Duckworth and Company. p.132. ISBN9780715627136. [3] "Marie Anne Lenormand" (http:/ / www. findagrave. com/ cgi-bin/ fg. cgi?page=gr& GRid=7720). Find A Grave. . Retrieved 11 September 2012. [4] Hoffmann, Detlef; Kroppenstedt, Erika (1972). Wahrsagekarten: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Okkultismus. Bielefeld: Deutsches Spielkarten Museum. pp.17, 21. [5] O'Donoghue, Freeman Marius (1901). Catalogue of the Collection of Playing Cards Bequeathed to the Trustees of the British Museum by the late Lady Charlotte Schreiber. London: British Museum. [6] Decker, Ronald; Depaulis, Thierry; Dummett, Michael (1996). A Wicked Pack of Cards: The Origins of the Occult Tarot. London: Gerald Duckworth and Company. pp.141, 282. ISBN9780715627136. [7] Humoristische Bltter fr Kopf und Herz. Nuremberg: Gustav Philipp Jakob Bieling. 1799. [8] Will, Georg Andreas; Nopitsch, Christian Conrad (1805). Nrnbergisches Gelehrten-Lexicon: Sechster Theil von H-M. Altdorf bei Nrnberg.

External links
Trionfi: Biography of Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand by autorbis (http://www.autorbis.net/ marie-anne-adelaide-lenormand) Trionfi Museum: Fortune telling decks including Lenormand decks (http://trionfi.com/0/s/g/) Lenormand Museum: Online museum displaying a private collection of Lenormand decks (http://www. lenormand-museum.com/) Remarkable women of different nations and ages: Mademoiselle Lenormand; the Fortune Teller (http://books. google.co.za/books?id=Z4UrAAAAMAAJ&q=lenormand#v=snippet&q=lenormand&f=false) (John P. Jewett and Company, Boston 1858) The Court of Napoleon by Frank Boott Goodrich (http://books.google.co.za/books?id=aIEvAAAAMAAJ& pg=PA320&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false) (Derby and Jackson, New York 1858)

Marie Anne Lenormand Madame Lenormand, the most famous card reader of all time (http://marygreer.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/ madame-le-normand-the-most-famous-card-reader-of-all-time/) by Mary K. Greer Origins of Playing Card Divination (http://marygreer.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/ origins-of-divination-with-playing-cards/) by Mary K. Greer

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