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Académie de médecine, 88 Académie des sciences: and D. Berthelot, 121; and L. Chevreuil, 32; and commission on divining rod and turning tables, 17, 179; and A. Cottin, 13; and Fanny Emden Prize, 124–26, 182; and Mesmer, 52; and professionalization of sciences in France, 3, 186; and Richet, 88, 124 Ahémar, Comtesse d’, 38 Alcan, Félix, 89 Alchemy, 35, 39, 44, 46 Almignana, abbé, 16, 179 American Association for the Advancement of Science, 144 American Society for Psychical Research, 87 Andrien, Annette, 99 Animal magnetism: history of, 185; and Institut général psychologique, 76; and Kardec, 20; and magnetizers, 13, 53, 56, 74, 98; and Mesmer, 52; and moving and talking tables, 53, 183; and occultism, 45; and Revue spirite, 29; and séances, 18; and somnambulism, 13 Animal wonder, 101–4 Annales des sciences psychiques: articles and news published in, 55, 72, 95, 102–4, 108; and court cases, 99; and Dariex, 75, 89, 91–92; end of, 86, 91, 112; and French psychical research, 5, 86, 88–89, 181; goals and organization of, 86–91, 97; and Richet, 86, 88, 95; on séances with Palladino at Institut général psychologique, 83 Anticlericalism, 61–63, 180 Antoniadi, Eugène, 105–7 Arago, François, 13 Archives de psychologie, 70, 131 Arsonval, Arsène d’, 77–79 Astral body, 34, 43, 45, 48–51, 56, 58 Astral realm, 36 Astrology, 35, 44, 46, 143 Aura, 42, 56–57, 94, 100 L’Aurore, 38 Automatic writing: and Geley, 118; and Kardec, 23, 34; in Revue spirite, 47; and Richet, 104; at séances, 12, 29; and Smith, 67; and spirits, 100 L’automatisme psychologique, 71–72, 75, 180. See also Janet, Pierre Autosuggestion. See suggestion Azam, Eugène, 71–72 Babinet, Jacques, 17–18, 153, 179 Backer, Félix de, 63 Ballet, Gilbert, 168 Bar, Estelle, 98 Baraduc, Hippolyte, 54–55, 76, 98, 180 Barrett, William, 87 Bataille, Dr. See Taxil, Léo Baudouin, Charles, 137 Beaunis, Henri-Étienne, 98, 167, 168 Bénet, Armand, 62 Béraud, Marthe. See Carrière, Eva Bergson, Henri, 75, 77, 79, 132 Bernheim, Hippolyte, 98, 167 Bersot, Ernest, 16 Berthelot, Daniel, 121 Bibliothèque diabolique, 3, 62–63, 180 Index 188 i n d e x Bisson, Alexandre, 105, 107 Bisson, Juliette: at international congresses of psychical research, 133; and séances at Juvisy-sur-Orge, 105; and séances at Sorbonne, 127–33, 181; and séances with Eva C., 118, 127–33, 144, 181; on suspicion of fraud, 144–46; and women in psychical research, 91 Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna, 37–38, 51, 157, 184 Blois, Jules, 39, 105 Boirac, Émile, 32, 92, 96, 125–26 Bompard, Gabrielle, 98–99 Bonneville, A., 91 Bosc, Ernest, 40 Boudet, Amélie. See Kardec, Amélie Boullan, Joseph-Antoine, 39 Bourg de Bozas, Guy du, 133 Bourneville, Désiré-Magloire, 3, 62–63, 180 Bozzano, Ernest, 117 Branly, Édouard, 77 Brettes, Ferdinand, 75 Brissaud, François, 77 Buguet, Édouard, 98, 107 Bulletin de la parapsychologie, 182 Bulletin de la Société d’études psychiques de Lyon, 181 Bulletin de la Société d’études psychiques de Nancy, 181 Bulletin de la Société d’études psychiques de Nice, 181–82 Bulletin de l’Union spirite française, 181 Bulletin du Centre d’études psychiques de Marseille, 182 Bulletin mensuel de la Société scientifique d’études psychologiques, 181 Burdy, Charles, 26–27 Burlet, Dr. Philibert, 59, 64, 179 Cahagnet, Louis-Alphonse, 19 Cahiers métapsychiques, ésotériques et traditionnels, 182 Cailletet, Louis-Paul, 75 Caithness, Lady, 38 Calculating animals. See Animal wonder Calmeil, L.-F., 63 Carion, Henri, 12, 16, 64, 179 Carrière, Eva (Eva C.): with J. Bisson, 118, 144–45; at Sorbonne, 126–32, 185; on suspicion of fraud, 109–10, 127, 139, 144–45; at Villa Carmen, 109–10 Catholicism: and Catholic church, 2; and Flammarion, 26; and Marian apparitions , 13; and occultism, 38–40, 46; and physicians, 61, 63–64; and popular beliefs, 2; and psychical researchers, 92; and spiritualism in America, 10; and writers on séances, 14–16 Centre ésotérique oriental de Paris, 46 Chaboseau, Pierre-Augustin, 41 Champville, Fabius de, 45 Charcot, Jean-Martin, 3, 30, 61–63, 98, 180 Chevillard, Alphonse, 18 Chevreuil, Léon, 32, 125, 180 Chevreul, Michel Eugène, 17–18, 179 Ciraolo, Giovanni, 137 Clairvoyance: clairvoyants, 14, 98, 143, 183; in courts, 98; and Flammarion, 94; and Geley, 75, 118; and Grasset, 72...

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