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Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand (1772–1843), also known as Marie Anne Le Normand, [1] was a French bookseller, necromancer, fortune-teller and cartomancer of considerable fame during the Napoleonic era.
Lenormand or Le Normand is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Henri-René Lenormand (1882–1951), French playwright; Louis-Sébastien Lenormand (1757–1837), French physicist, inventor and pioneer in parachuting; Marie Anne Lenormand (1772–1843), French professional fortune-teller for more than 40 years, famous during the ...
Henri-René Lenormand (3 May 1882 - 16 February 1951) was a French playwright. He was born on 3 May 1882 in Paris . His plays, steeped in symbolism, were recognized for their explorations of subconscious motivation, deeply reflecting the influence of the theories of Sigmund Freud . [ 1 ]
Lenormand is considered the first man to make a witnessed descent with a parachute and is also credited with coining the term parachute, from the Latin prefix para meaning "against", an imperative form of parare = to avoid, avert, defend, resist, guard, shield or shroud, from paro = to parry, and the French word chute for "fall", hence the word "parachute" literally means an aeronautic device ...
He was the son of Louis-François Lenormand and Marie-Jeanne-Antoinette Huvé. Grandson of the architect Jean-Jacques Huvé (1742–1808) and nephew of Jean-Jacques-Marie Huvé (1783–1852), [2] he was a student of his uncle and Antoine-François Peyre (1739–1823) at the School of Fine Arts in Paris.
Robin Aimé Robert Le Normand Mainfray (born 11 November 1996) is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for La Liga club Atlético Madrid.Born in France, he plays for the Spain national team.
Johann Kaspar Hechtel (1 May 1771 – 20 December 1799) was a German businessman, owner of a brass factory in Nuremberg, non-fiction writer and designer of parlour games including the prototype for the Petit Lenormand cartomancy deck. According to published biographies, Hechtel also contributed anonymously to some treatises on physics.
Sébastien René Lenormand (2 April 1796, in Condé-sur-Noireau – 10 December 1871) was a French lawyer and botanist who specialized in the field of phycology. From 1817 he studied law in Paris , and following graduation (1820), practiced law in the town of Vire .