Charles Lafontaine

Charles Lafontaine born with Vendôme in 1803 and died in Geneva in 1892 is a hypnotizer free - Suisse.

Biography

It passes most of its life to Geneva, where it publishes a newspaper called the hypnotizer .

After having given up a career of Actor, it takes part in the experiments of the marquis de Puységur and becomes famous a itinerant hypnotizer. He writes an autobiography which perhaps influenced the writer George of Maurier for her book Trilby .

It is after having attended a demonstration of Lafontaine with Manchester on November 13rd, 1841 which the Scottish doctor James Braid starts to be interested in the animal Magnétisme that it re-elected Hypnose.

April 9th, 1869, Lafontaine is condemned to 2000 francs d´amende for calumny to have made appear in its newspaper a booklet (under the title " a scandal médical") blaming the doctor Auguste Ladé

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