Laboratories of Faith: Mesmerism, Spiritism, and Occultism in Modern France

Index

Index 281 Italic page numbers refer to illustrations. Abeille de la Ternoise, 32 absinthe, 153, 178, 179 Académie de médecine, 69–70, 72 Académie des sciences: and explanations of tables tournantes, 12, 17, 18, 38–48, 64, 75, 76; and Mathieu, 1; and Mesmerism, 73, 74, 77 Adversus Magnetismi Abusus, 37 Agulhon, Maurice, 264 Aksakof, Alexander, 102n13, 164, 166 Alcan, Félix, 207 alchemy, 52, 233 American spiritualism. See Modern Spiritualism Almignana, Abbé, 28, 30, 31, 32 L’Ami de la religion, 27, 31, 32, 35 amour du merveilleux, 38, 44, 45, 46, 48, 64, 187 André, Karl, 18 Les Annales des sciences psychiques, 207–9, 229 Les Annales politiques et littéraires, 230 Apollonius of Tyana, 238 Arago, François, 39, 40, 41, 43, 160 astral fluid, and Occultism, 246, 249 Audouard, Olympe, 172, 174–75 Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung, 18 Auguez, Paul, 103–4, 114 Augustine, Saint, 142, 146 automatic writing: and Breton, 256–57; Gabriel Delanne on, 231–32; and Dufaux, 112; and Flammarion, 2, 230–31; Janet on, 214, 220; and Kardec, 100, 102, 113; and Morin, 78; publishing of, 121, 122; and social class, 136–37, 136n98; and Spiritism, 97, 125, 127, 132, 220, 221, 252, 256–57. See also direct writing; spirit communications L’Avenir, 117 Babinet, Jacques, 39, 43–44, 45, 46, 48, 183 Babinski, Joseph, 254 Balfour, Arthur, 206 Balzac, Honoré de, 70, 103 Baraduc, Hippolyte, 249 Barbey d’Aurévilly, Jules, 35–36 Barlet, Félicien-Charles, 248 Baudin circle, 100, 101, 102, 103 Bautain, Abbé Louis, 32–33 Beaumont, Charles-Edouard de, lithograph on tables tournantes, 26 Bergier, Jacques, 258–59, 260 Bergson, Henri, 206, 207, 218 Berillon, Abbé, 2, 126 Bernheim, Hippolyte, 200, 208, 209 Le Bien public, 191, 194 Binet, Alfred, 217, 218 Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna, 235–37, 238, 239 Bois, Jules, 250 Boist (Spiritist leader), 179 Bolopion, E. F., 251, 252 Bonaparte, Louis-Napoleon. See Napoleon III (emperor of the French) Le Bon berger, 252 Bonnard, Arthur de, 53 Boullan, Joseph-Antoine, 225, 225n63, 243 Boussingault, Jean-Baptiste, 39 Boy, Daniel, 9 Boyard, Augustin, 171n38 Brazil, 261, 261n32 Breton, André, 256–57 Britain: and Home, 85; Modern Spiritualism in, 118–19, 123, 157, 206; psychical research in, 152, 158–60, 166–67, 206–7; séances in, 16; and spirit photography, 162, 163; and women mediums’ publications, 121 British Journal of Photography, 167 Brower, Matthew Brady, 254 Buguet, Edouard: arrest and prosecution of, 178–79; commercial spirit photography, 167–68, 173; and Crookes, 166–67; investigation of, 158n12, 174–76, 177; journalists on, 172–73, 191, 192, 193, 194; and Leymarie, 164, 166, 167, 221; photograph of, with spirit of uncle, 165; publication of spirit photography, 168, 171; and Puel, 163–64; Spiritists’ defense of, 196; and trial of 1875, 153, 180–85 Bullet, Comte de, 177, 181 Burdy, Charles, 126 Cabet, Etienne, 49, 109 Caisse générale et centrale du spiritisme, 155, 164, 174, 222, 223 Campbell, Colin, 11, 261 Carion, Henri, 28–30, 29, 31, 32, 77, 78 Carré, Colonel, 169, 183, 191, 192 Caston, Alfred de, 117 Catholic Church: and antidemocratic conservatism, 6; and Delaage, 71; and Dreyfus case, 205; and Government of Moral Order, 174; hegemony of, 34, 35–36; hierarchy of, 263; and Kardec, 98, 141; and new forms of piety, 7–8, 27, 143; orthodox Catholics, 7–8, 27, 110, 119, 125, 141, 142, 144, 147; pervasiveness of Catholicism, 9; republican critiques of, 186, 197, 200, 263; and Spiritism, 97, 120, 121, 125, 140–49, 158, 198; and tangible religious experience, 7, 27. See also Christianity; Virgin Mary Catholic clergy and laypeople: on Spiritism, 140, 142–46, 149, 153; on tables tournantes, 12, 17, 23, 27–37 Catholic journalists: and dialogues with saints, 145–46; on faith, 191–92; on mediums, 33–34; and new forms of piety, 7; on Spiritism, 13, 187, 188; and tables tournantes, 27, 31; and views of human nature, 186–87 Catholics, 7–8, 27, 110, 119, 125, 141–42, 144, 147 Caudemberg, Girard de, 103, 104 censorship, 17, 59, 62, 83, 174 Champion, Françoise, 260, 261 Charcot, Jean-Martin, 200, 207, 208, 212, 238, 254 charity, 106, 107, 109, 112, 118, 242 Le Charivari, 22, 188, 192–93, 195 Chevillard, Alphonse, 175–76 Chevreul, Ernest, 39, 40, 43–45, 46, 48, 183 Chiaia, Ercole, 209 Christianity: Blavatsky’s critique of, 237; and the Golden Rule, 106, 129; and Occultism, 239, 242, 243, 244; and Roustaing, 222–223, and Spiritism, 141, 147...