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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 was highly influential on the wave of French cartomancy that began in the late 18th century.
Etteilla also influenced the French divination professional Marie Anne Lenormand. From 1783 to 1785, Etteilla published his work Manière de se récréer avec le jeu de cartes nommées tarots ("Way to recreate yourself with the deck of cards called tarots"), [3] which is still considered the standard reference work of Tarot cartomancy.
Marie Laveau (1801–1881), American New Orleans Voodoo practitioner; Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854–1934), occult writer and influential member of the Theosophical Society Adyar [28] Marie Anne Lenormand (1772–1843), French fortune-teller favoured by Joséphine de Beauharnais; Eliphas Lévi (1810–1875), French occult writer and ...
Mlle Marie-Anne Adelaide Lenormand outshone even Etteilla and was the first cartomancer to people in high places, through her claims to be the personal confidant of Empress Josephine, Napoleon and other notables. [4]
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 ...
The No.3 Card (The Ship) from a Lenormand Deck.1842 Edition, printed c.1890 in Germany. In the mid 19th century after the death of the famous French fortune-teller Marie Anne Lenormand, Lenormand's 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.
Following Etteilla, tarot cartomancy was moved forward by Marie-Anne Adelaid Lenormand (1768–1830) and others. [2] Lenormand was the first well known cartomancer and claimed to be the confidante of Empress Josephine and other local luminaries.
Marie Anne Lenormand (1772–1843), French bookseller, necromancer, fortune-teller and cartomancer Marie-Anne Leroudier (1838–1908), French embroiderer Marie-Anne Libert (1782–1865), Belgian botanist