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Periodical:Almanach de la Chance
Almanach de la Chance: cover of an issue
Summary:
Summary by:
Pat Deveney
Title:
Almanach de la Chance, L'.
Other Titles:
Almanach de la Chance et de la Vie Mysterieuse
Published:
1905-1910
Frequency:
Annual
Location:
Paris, France.
Language:
French.
Editor(s):
Papus (Gerard Encausse); Professor Donato.
Publisher(s):
Librairie Française / Hermetique.
Succession:
Succeeds: Almanach du magiste
Description:

1/1, 1905-1910. 64 pp., 1 franc.

In 1910 the title changed to Almanach de la Chance et de la Vie Mysterieuse. This was intended as a sequel to Papus's Almanach du magiste, which ceased in 1899. Professor "Donato" was obviously intended to be taken for the famous stage magnetist Alfred Edouard d'Hont, who had died in 1900, and may have been another stage magician by the name of Leonard-Chaumont (1848?-1927). See the note under La Vie Mysterieuse. Popular occult almanac, with visions, magical calendar, horoscopes, graphology, mesmerism, occult stories, etc., and a daily prognostication of favorable and unfavorable dates. In 1906, notably, it published "le main de fatime, une clef de la kabbale orientale," with a plate, which was said to show Cagliostro's infallible method of determining character through manipulation of numbers. Contributions by Phaneg, A. Savine, et al. Caillet 3557.

Other Sources:BNF.
Issues:Almanach De La Chance 1906
Almanach De La Chance 1910