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Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand (1772–1843) was a French professional fortune-teller. In France, Lenormand is considered the greatest cartomancer of all time, highly influential on the wave of French cartomancy that began in the late 18th century.
Showing psychic potential at the age of 7, and interested by many types of divination from an early age.
Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand won huge fame at some stage in the Napoleonic generation for her fortune-telling capabilities.
Over the years she told the fortunes of many of France’s royal and innovative “elite.” Among her clients had been the Princess de Lamballe, the Superintendent of the Queen Marie Antoinette’s Household; Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, the Comte de Mirabeau; Robespierre, the unwell-fated Deputy of the Committee of Public Safety; the diplomat Talleyrand; Prince Metternich, and Czar Alexander of Russia.