Evidence: | '[during an encounter with a Madame de Villegard who showed her 'curious old books on the black art'] I read some of the letterpress of the cabalistic books, which indeed appeared to me nonsense. Madame de V[-] looked wise and pleased, because I listened to her, and she said, if I would study any branch of the occult sciences, all her works on these subjects were at my disposal'. |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | 14 Mar 1815 | ||||||||||
Country: | France | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Nice | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Charlotte Bury |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 18 Feb 1775 |
Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
Occupation: | Lady-in-waiting |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | France |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | |
Title: | 'curious books on the black arts' |
Genre: | Astrology / alchemy / occult |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | read in situ in library of Madame de Villegarde |
Record ID: | 18364 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Charlotte Bury | |
Editor: | A. Francis Steuart | |
Title: | Diary of a Lady-in-Waiting, The | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1908 | |
Vol: | I | |
Page: | 329 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Charlotte Bury, A. Francis Steuart (ed.), Diary of a Lady-in-Waiting, The (London, 1908), I, p. 329, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18364, accessed: 02 May 2024 |
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