September 16, 1768 in the French town of Alencon was born the great fortune-teller and clairvoyant Marianne Lenormand.Her life began seriously: the mother and father died, Marianne brought adoptive parents.
As a child, every day Marianne quarreled with her stepmother and ran in standing at the outskirts of Alençon gypsy camp.There she received her first idea of divinations, predictions and just magic.
family decided to re-send Marianne local Benedictine monastery.However, soon Marianne caught Guessing on the arm young novice.Instead of words of contrition, she suddenly has publicly declared that soon the prioress will shift, and the monastery headed by another woman, strong, with hair the color of fire, from an aristocratic family, and the name of it will start with "L".The surrounding were so impressed with the girls and the number of words, the exact details of its prediction that even Marianne forgot her punishment.
When the monastery two months later came a new abbess - haired nun of nobles Leeward - a story about predicting Marianne was the first she had heard of shaken sisters.The new prioress from the start that sent the young prophetess home away from sin.
Lenormand With 14 years began to work in the Parisian seamstress shop stepfather, becoming popular among customers.Gradually she began to wonder customers family shop on the cards for the system, then the popular magician Etteilla read the fate of the hand and predict various events, literally without leaving behind the counter.In pre-revolutionary Paris, this activity proved to be very popular, and soon she opened her own business.Start-up capital Marianna won the lottery, using the knowledge of Kabbalah, bought a house on the rue de Tournon, and opened there disguised as a notary conjectural salon that quickly became popular among Parisians of all classes, despite the high prices.
married Mademoiselle Lenormand never been, although with age to her and began to address "Madam" as a married woman.Rumors ascribed to her two lovers - a mysterious aristocrat, with whom she had a short time on the content, and the young accountant her stepfather, with whom Marianne united interest in astrology, divination card and Kabbalah.
However, these novels have ended sadly aristocrat executed revolutionaries (Marianne barely managed to escape from his house), and the bookkeeper tried to control the business Lenormand girl, and she chased him.
Lenormand read the cards, horoscopes built, talked with the spirits, to determine the fate of the hand, the shape of the skull, on the tea leaves with the help of a black chicken, a crystal ball, molten lead and at least a dozen of proven ways.
their own destiny Marianne knew beforehand.Over the years, she had long divination are detained on charges of witchcraft and black magic, as well as for political reasons.The fact that she was intimately familiar with many government officials and the military, and occasionally came under suspicion of conspiring.
most famous prediction of Madame Lenormand was given to it when meeting with the Countess Josephine de Beauharnais, even before she married unknown General Bonaparte.As soon as he saw Josephine, who had come to know his fate, Madame Lenormand exclaimed: "That's the future Empress of France!"Josephine was shocked when she was still a child, an old witch in Martinique prophesied that she would become queen of France.
Then Josephine did not believe the prediction, but Madame Lenormand, as we know, has never been wrong, and it made her a gift of clairvoyance later confidant of the Empress of France for many years.
interesting is also the case with Bernadotte: poor but brave Gascon, rose from a simple soldier to the general, and Napoleon made him marshal of France.Once dressed and wealthy businessman came to Marianne Lenormand ask advice about defunct retailer.Madame Lenormand spread her cards immediately guessed deception and announced the visitor not only his true name and rank, and that he was destined to become king.
Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte did not believe the prophetess, but she, as always, was right: after just a few years, he was adopted by a childless Swedish King Carl XIII, after whom Bernadotte had inherited the throne.
Over time, the popularity of Madame Lenormand became international.She sent out horoscopes and predictions of all the European capitals.Lenormand and she loved to travel, she traveled to Geneva, Vienna, Brussels, London, Venice and even St. Petersburg.
Marianne Lenormand died in 1843 at age 71.She managed to predict the death of the First World War and the Russian Revolution.
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