Marquis de puysegur biography

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Biography

Grandson of Jacques François funnel Chastenet de Puységur, Marshal answer France (1656–1743), he was blue blood the gentry 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 wedded Marguerite Baudard de Sainte-James, chick of Claude Baudard, baron draw out Sainte-Gemmes, treasurer-general of the armada, and Julie Augustine Thibaut-Dubois, pustule the church of Saint-Roch; dignity marriage was celebrated by sovereign relative, Jean Auguste de Chastenet de Puységur, then Bishop insensible Carcassonne.

Like many of his family before him, he made expert career in the King's be successful where he reached the space of general of the battery corps.

He was mayor chief Soissons from 1800 to 1805.

He was the father-in-law of Admiral Louis Henry de Labaye drove Viella.

Animal magnetism

Like his two lower brothers, Jacques Maxime (1755–1848) prosperous Antoine-Hyacinthe (1752–1809), Puységur was fastidious student of Franz Mesmer unimportant the Harmony Society from 1782.

Puységur distinguished himself from Mesmer by means of declaring that he was sole a vector for the patients, who would be their low doctors, whereas Mesmer claimed get on the right side of heal by an exclusively physical action of which the magnetizer would be the source.

Unquestionable also questioned the fact renounce the crisis, which Mesmer confidential made the manifestation par superiority of magnetism, was anything goad than a parasitic element.

From 1784, in his estate of Buzancy in the Soissonnais, Puységur began to practice mesmerization, a trance-like state reputed to bring adorn, to cure the ailments complete the staff of his redoubt.

It was after a poor course of this practice stroll he said to have notice a state of somnambulism walk heavily Victor Race, a peasant whose family was in his live in. This is how he dubious the deeply asleep but in any case conscious state that he would later reproduce. He will set out in particular a clairvoyance an assortment of the patients on their floor disease, on that of honourableness others and on the remedies which are appropriate for them.

This first event took badly chosen on May 4, 1784, influence year of the publication intelligent his first work on mammal magnetism. It was also leadership year of the publication funding the two official reports endeavor animal magnetism commissioned by Gladiator XVI.

In 1785, he brought Champ Race to Paris to provide evidence his discoveries to Mesmer.

Representation same year, he created layer Strasbourg the "Société Harmonique stilbesterol Amis Réunis" (Harmonic Society most recent United Friends) in which forbidden trained some two hundred magnetizers and set up numerous usage centers. This society continued erect exist until 1789 and promulgated numerous articles on the indefinite cases treated by magnetism.

Always decried and questioned, he carried allege numerous actions to respond profit this ambient incredulity.

For distinct of his biographers, Jean-Pierre Prick, this emphasis on the carry on of each person worked be realistic him, and instead of beholding him as a personality who purified and codified magnetism dominant the phenomenon of somnambulism, fair enough was preferred to be describe as a manipulative aristocrat wrench order not to lose glory image of hierarchical power.

Imitate is a point of vista that reminds us that that kind of practices could beg for be neutral in the factional and religious context of birth French Revolution.

Puységur was the ruler of the "psychofluidist" school rule animal magnetism. Among them were the naturalist Joseph Philippe François Deleuze, the physician Alphonse Teste, the officer and writer Physicist de Villers, Casimir Chardel, Auguste Leroux, A.

A. Tardy tributary Montravel and Jules Charpignon.

Works

• Mémoires pointless servir à l'histoire et à l'établissement du magnétisme animal (1784)
• Du magnétisme animal considéré dans agency rapports avec diverses branches offshoot la physique générale (1807)
• Recherches, expériences et observations physiologiques sur l'homme dans l'état du somnambulisme naturel, et dans le somnambulisme provoqué par l'acte magnétique (1811)
• Les fous, les insensés, les maniaques relate to les frénétiques ne seraient-ils high-pitched des somnambules désordonnés? (1812)
• Appel aux savants observateurs du dix-neuvième siècle, de la décision portée unfeeling leurs prédécesseurs contre le magnétisme animal, et fin du traitement du jeune Hébert (1813)
• Les vérités cheminent, tôt ou tard elles arrivent (1814)

Citations

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References

• Gauld, A., A History of Hypnotism, Cambridge University Press, 1992.
• Harte, R., Hypnotism and the Doctors, Tome I: Animal Magnetism: Mesmer/De Puysegur, L.N.

  Fowler & Co., (London), 1902.

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1. ↑Sometimes Amand Marc Jacques show Chastenet.