Claude Sosthène Grasset d\' Orcet

Claude-Sosthène Grasset d' Orcet , born the June 6th 1828 with Aurillac and deceased the December 2nd 1900 with Cusset, was an archeologist, epigraph, founder of the French Mythologie.

Biography

Wire of Pierre-Joseph Grasset, mayor of Mauriac, and Antoinette-Athénaïs de Chalembel, girl of the mayor of Cusset, it made his studies with the college of Aurillac, then with the college of Juilly where it discovers the esotericism with the Constant Abbé, the future Eliphas Lévi, which had been engaged there as repeater by the superior who was at that time the abbot Henri Boisnormand de Bonnechose (1800-1883), and which will be thereafter bishop of Carcassonne at the time of the business of Rennes-the-Castle.

Grasset d' Orcet remains then in Paris where makes studies with the Faculty of Law, then of sculpture to the École of the Art schools in the workshop of Elias Robert, which encourage to undertake voyages in Greece, then in all Middle East. He married in Cyprus with Clemence-Félicie Lafon, girl of a former established medical officer with Nicosie.

He attended between 1848 and 1851, the coffee of Regency in Paris where he met Alfred de Musset which was poisoned with a mixture of beer and wormwood, Théophile Gautier, the painter Murger and his model Musette, Jules Barbey d' Aurevilly. He takes part in the revolts of 1848 while enlisting in a company of the 10th legion ordered by the Marquis de Saulcy. It will be the beginning of a long relation between the two men.

It is established several years with Cyprus where it undertakes excavations and of which it returns with a great quantity of objects which constitute the first bottom of Cypriot archeology of the Musée of Louvre.

It takes part in two archaeological missions with Ernest Renan, then with Melchior of Vogue.

Before 1870, Grasset d' Orcet collaborated as journalist in the newspapers the Bell , Le Figaro , and made reports for the Agence Havas during the Commune of Paris.

He collaborates during twenty-seven years in the British Review in which he publishes 218 articles, the first in 1873 on L' Alcoolisme in littérature, and made many translations.

Part of its work was taken again and continued on the one hand by Henri Dontenville (1888-1981) which does not mention it and which founded in 1950 the Société of French Mythology; In addition by a certain number of authors esoteric like Fulcanelli, Claudius Popelin who quote it and plagiarized by Joséphin Péladan.

Works

• Archeology mystérieuse, Paris, 2 in-12°, Edict,
  
• Œuvres décryptées, Paris, 2 in-12°, Edict,
  
• Histoire of the horse through the âges, Paris, 2006, Edict,
  
• Histoire secret of Europe, Paris, 2 in-12°, Edict,
  
• Chroniques of Auvergne, Paris, Edict,
  
• La cross of verre, followed duSiège of Lyon, Paris, Edict,
  

Sources

• Notice obituary on Grasset d' Orcet, 1900, Re-examined Britannique.
  
• Grasset of Orcet, doctor in grimoires, by Valerie Nice, 1993, master's paper, imaginary University of Bordeaux,
  
• L' of the nation at the esoterist Grasset d' Orcet, by Imaginary Jean-Claude Drouin, in L' of the nation, acts of the European conference of Bordeaux, 1991, Bordeaux, PU Bordeaux.

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