Count of Saint-Germain

The Count of Saint-Germain is an adventurer of the 18th century, probably born in 1707 and apparently deceased with Eckernförde (Schleswig) in 1784.

Presented to Louis XV and Madam de Pompadour in 1750, it created sensation with Versailles (Its pseudonym is curious: Saint-Germain being a royal field, one can wonder which would have been the impression if he had said Marquis of Saint-Cloud or Duc of Marly ).

It was equipped with covered clothing of jewels, absorbed only pills, bread and hulled grain and spoke and wrote the Greek , Latin, the Sanscrit, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, English, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. It painted delicately and, virtuoso with the harpsichord and the violin, it also composed of the music. He would have been very versed in chemistry and alchemy. He would have indeed achieved the alchemical Philosopher's stone which brings immortality. One allots besides to him the work of alchemy Very Holy Trinosophie , but that is not proven and often not disputed. He often had a great passion for the invaluable stones, of which he always had great quantities, of an extraordinary size, and affirmed to hold a secrecy making it possible to make disappear the defects from diamonds.

He would have had the memory of his former lives and a corresponding wisdom, or would have had a elixir of long-life having given him a very long life and astonishing memories, from two to four thousand years according to him, which enabled him to tell the Wedding at Cana or the intrigues of the court of Babylon. In a letter of April 15th 1760 with Frederic II, Voltaire said of him “ It is a man who does not die, and who knows all ” and Frederic II called it “ the man who cannot die ”. According to Chamfort, if one asked his servant: “Is it true that your Master is two thousand years old? ”, the man answered: “I then to say it to you: it has been only three hundred years that I am with his service. ”

The type-setter Rameau remembered to have seen Saint-Germain in 1701. The countess of Cergy had seen it with Venice, where it was ambassadress 50 years earlier. He could make himself invisible and was also hypnotizing, which can explain much these facts (at the time, the hypnotism was attached to the sleepwalking and “magnetism”).

Obliged to flee France in 1760 under the pressure of dark businesses, it travelled to Prussia, Russia, Italy, England, and Austria, where one often saw it in Vienna, “general headquarter of the Rosicrucian brotherhood” and failed finally the court of the landgrave of the Schleswig-Holstein, alchemist enthusiastic. He would have died suddenly in the arms of two chambermaids, but would have reappeared in Paris like spectator during the Revolution.

Did assumptions circulate on its actions of espionage, but with the profit of which? It would have been at least triple agent, while various allegations bring back its attachment to the monarchical principle or even to German hegemony rosicrucian.

Casanova told its interview with $the Hague with the Count, vêtu of a costume of Armenian, the same one as one lent to the Juif wandering, another incarnation of the myth of perpetual longevity, myth which disappeared incidentally at the 17th century. But Casanova suspected the Count of conjuring and imposture.

Goethe would have been one of its disciples. Napoleon III, initiated in the Carbonari (“masonry” of wood) was interested in the Count of Saint-Germain and charged the police force with gathering with the Tuileries all the possible indices relating to it. This file would have burned at the time of the fire which devastated this Parisian Palate in 1871, with the result that there does not remain almost any more any trace of the identity real or claimed of Saint-Germain.

Various assumptions circulate on its ascending: Portuguese or bastard Jew of related royal blood to the Habsbourgs (assumption of Chacornac), or Hungarian aristocrat of the family of the Rákóczi.

See too

Count of Saint-Germain, alias Richard Chanfray,

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