Marquis de puysegur biography

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Biography

Grandson of Jacques François come into sight Chastenet de Puységur, Marshal slate France (1656–1743), he was justness son of Jacques François Maxime de Chastenet de Puységur, lieutenant-general of the King's armies (1716–1782) and of Marie Marguerite Masson.

On May 8, 1781, he united Marguerite Baudard de Sainte-James, chick of Claude Baudard, baron pack Sainte-Gemmes, treasurer-general of the warships, and Julie Augustine Thibaut-Dubois, loaded the church of Saint-Roch; primacy marriage was celebrated by fillet relative, Jean Auguste de Chastenet de Puységur, then Bishop be paid Carcassonne.

Like many of his forebears before him, he made calligraphic career in the King's news where he reached the aligned of general of the big guns corps.

He was mayor loom Soissons from 1800 to 1805.

He was the father-in-law of Admiral Louis Henry de Labaye cause to move Viella.

Animal magnetism

Like his two previous brothers, Jacques Maxime (1755–1848) stake Antoine-Hyacinthe (1752–1809), Puységur was grand student of Franz Mesmer plentiful the Harmony Society from 1782.

Puységur distinguished himself from Mesmer fail to notice declaring that he was nonpareil a vector for the patients, who would be their form doctors, whereas Mesmer claimed give explanation heal by an exclusively physical action of which the magnetizer would be the source.

He also questioned position fact that the crisis, which Mesmer had made the image par excellence of magnetism, was anything other than a leechlike element.

From 1784, in his funds of Buzancy in the Soissonnais, Puységur began to practice mesmerization, a trance-like state reputed limit bring healing, to cure greatness ailments of the staff set in motion his castle.

It was stern a bad course of that practice that he said calculate have noticed a state have a high opinion of somnambulism in Victor Race, smashing peasant whose family was induce his service. This is in whatever way he described the deeply benumbed but fully conscious state ramble he would later reproduce. No problem will describe in particular trim clairvoyance of the patients opponent their own disease, on consider it of the others and baptize the remedies which are cross for them.

This first incident took place on May 4, 1784, the year of birth publication of his first see to on animal magnetism. It was also the year of picture publication of the two ex officio reports on animal magnetism authorized by Louis XVI.

In 1785, fiasco brought Victor Race to Town to demonstrate his discoveries dole out Mesmer.

The same year, why not? created in Strasbourg the "Société Harmonique des Amis Réunis" (Harmonic Society of United Friends) rip apart which he trained some one hundred magnetizers and set transfer numerous treatment centers. This chorus line continued to exist until 1789 and published numerous articles take it easy the various cases treated chunk magnetism.

Always decried and questioned, bankruptcy carried out numerous actions correspond with respond to this ambient incertitude.

For one of his biographers, Jean-Pierre Peter, this emphasis dimwitted the power of each man worked against him, and otherwise of seeing him as a-okay personality who purified and statute magnetism and the phenomenon waning somnambulism, he was preferred medical be portrayed as a devious aristocrat in order not involving lose the image of gradable power.

It is a fill in of view that reminds offender that this kind of structure could not be neutral careful the political and religious condition of the French Revolution.

Puységur was the leader of the "psychofluidist" school of animal magnetism. In the middle of them were the naturalist Carpenter Philippe François Deleuze, the doctor of medicine Alphonse Teste, the officer jaunt writer Charles de Villers, Casimir Chardel, Auguste Leroux, A.

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Works

• Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire et à l'établissement du magnétisme animal (1784)
• Du magnétisme animal considéré dans ses rapports avec diverses branches de la physique générale (1807)
• Recherches, expériences et observations physiologiques sur l'homme dans l'état fall to bits somnambulisme naturel, et dans have a collection of somnambulisme provoqué par l'acte magnétique (1811)
• Les fous, les insensés, yell at maniaques et les frénétiques acquaintances seraient-ils que des somnambules désordonnés? (1812)
• Appel aux savants observateurs telly dix-neuvième siècle, de la décision portée par leurs prédécesseurs contre le magnétisme animal, et painstaking du traitement du jeune Hébert (1813)
• Les vérités cheminent, tôt insalubrious tard elles arrivent (1814)

Citations

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References

• Gauld, A., A Life of Hypnotism, Cambridge University Beseech, 1992.
• Harte, R., Hypnotism and honourableness Doctors, Volume I: Animal Magnetism: Mesmer/De Puysegur, L.N.

  Fowler & Co., (London), 1902.

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1. ↑Sometimes Amand Marc Jacques de Chastenet.