Charles Léonard Lafontaine (27 March 1803 – 13 August 1892) was a French "public magnetic demonstrator", who also "had an interest in animal magnetism...
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in Lower Canada August Lafontaine (1758–1831), German novelist Charles Lafontaine (1803–1892), Swiss mesmerist De Lafontaine (1655–1738), French ballerina...
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died in infancy; Louis-Hippolyte (born July 11, 1862) and Charles François Hypolite Lafontaine, born April 13, 1864, who died the following year. The elder...
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von Eschenmayer Abade Faria Charles Foster Paul Gibier Valentine Greatrakes Allan Kardec Justinus Kerner Charles Lafontaine Johann Kaspar Lavater William...
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1841 – James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism by Charles Lafontaine, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism...
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a stage performance by the traveling Swiss magnetic demonstrator Charles Lafontaine (1803–1892) in November 1841. Braid was well aware of similar performances...
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example of a woman who, in the words of congregation historian Father Charles LaFontaine, "had the distinction of founding a religious community on equal terms...
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August 4 – Ernestine Rose, Polish-born feminist (b. 1810) August 13 – Charles Lafontaine, Swiss mesmerist (b. 1803) August 23 – Deodoro da Fonseca, 1st president...
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– Nikolay Yazykov, Russian poet, Slavophile (d. 1846) March 27 – Charles Lafontaine, Swiss mesmerist (d. 1892) April 7 – Flora Tristan, French feminist...
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Canada. The Baldwin–LaFontaine ministry barely lasted six months before Governor Bagot also died in March 1843. He was replaced by Charles Metcalfe, whose...
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