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Periodical: L'Astrologue Francais

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Astrologue français, L'.
Ou Le Petit homme bleu: contenant les predictions de ce petit homme pour chaque mois de l'annee ...; ses prophéties sur la politique, les theatres, la litterature, etc.; le spectre, nouvelle incroyable, mais prouvee, etc., etc.
1819 Annual
Paris, France. Language: French. Publisher: Caillot. Editor: E.F.G.H.
1, 1819.

This was an astrological almanac, whose title completely describes its content. A series of almanacs of this name existed as early as 1749.

Other Sources:BNF
Issues:L'Astrologue Francais 1819
Claude-Generated Themes:   L'Astrologue Francais ('The French Astrologer') is, as its title declares, an astrological periodical - part of the popular French astrological press. The sampled pages are OCR-degraded and happen to fall on general miscellany (a note on the book trade, a satirical piece on spectacle-sellers, a ghost story), so the machine digest's largest signals - 'spiritualism' and 'hollow-earth' - are artefacts of the French word esprit and of OCR fragments ('tero/dero') rather than real themes. The periodical's declared and organising subject is astrology, with the light occult and talismanic colouring typical of the genre. It is catalogued here as an astrology title, its in-sample astrological evidence being thin enough that the classification rests on the masthead.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Astrology