The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-04-22
PROPHECIES OF PARIS
HENRIETTE COUEDON, GABRIEL's
sELF-DECLARED MOUTHPIECE.
She Predicts Fearful Calamities for
England and France, and Great
Crowds Wait for Audience.

Paris Letter in New York World.
DR.. Charcot said a short time before his
death: In fifty years you will see trials
for sorcery reappearing under another
name." The prophecy of the great scien-
fist is brought TO mind the past week by
reason of a curious manifestation. the de-
tails of which have occupied many Journal
istic pens. The angel Gabriel IL among us.
it appears. He fittingly chose Holy Week
for his Paris debut. His m~outhpiece is by
name Mile. Couedon. She inhabits a small
apartment in the Rue Paradis-prophetically
named, at would seem. By the lips of this
strange young person Gabriel has said
many things to many people, for thousands
have focked to the Rue Paradis and thread
ed the narrow corridors and stairways that
conduct to this modern Sybil.
He has spoken with the tongue of proph-
ecy. He predicts that the Bourgeois Min
istry will fall; that a great European war
will result from events in Egypt; that
France is to be punished: that England is
to receive a heavy blow, her population
decimated. her pride crushed. her wealth
destroyed; that a leader will arise for
France, not from the side of the Orleans,
nor yet from the Bonaparte, but a new
person, now in other lands and unknown,
VINO is to govern France; also that the
clergy will be punished because of its
pride and want of charity.
To Jules Claretie the archangel says:
You are director in a house in which you
have enemies He sends a message to
Henri Rochefort, saying that he must learn
to understand the law of God and bids
him make his peace with Him. To Jealous
wives and love-lorn men and maids the
words of the heavenly messenger are some
times troubling, for he doesn't mind speak
ing plainly to them. Scientists. ciergymen
and doctors are studying the case.
DIFFERENTLY VIEWED.
Opinions Of the strangest kind are ven-
tured, even that the whole matter is a
worked-up scheme on the part of the Bou-
langist party In furtherance of their plans.
All which goes TO show that even If science
is bankrupt-as Brunetiere declared some
months ago-mysticism. at least. IS solvent.
Satanism, magic. mysterious doctrines.
~chiromancy, religious delirium are in the
air. The mild indications are found In the
Bossuet sermons at the Badiniere. In the
religious programmes elsewhere. in Hugs
mans turned Trappist, in ex-Minister Tur-
quet distributing ha.f-worn shoes among
the poor, In the three-sided Paul Verlaine.
The formidable side Is seen in the poou-
larity of Mime. De Thebes and In the i've
" VI Tic AlECi oaOiiCl OF IN rue
Paradis. The French reporters nave had
same amusing adventures in their efforts
to get into the presence OF Mile. Couedon
after Ii was determined by her family, for
prudential reasons, that she should for the
present give no more audiences to the gen.
eral public. But 1T will be interesting, no
doubt, to American readers to acquaint
themselves with the beginning, as well as
with the progress, of the odd attempt TO
exploit human credulity, which has in its
entific truth which has been conceded to
Mesmer, whose pretended occult gift in
famed the whole OF France In the eight
zenith century.
on March 4 last the monthly meeting of
the Society Of the Psychic Sciences. In the
Rue serpente, was made notable by the
girl Of twenty years. 1t was announced as
a case OF i.luminism. or, in other words.
of sanity Inspiration. The young woman
was Mile. Henriette Couedon.
were the conclusions arrived at by the
1 Rsstaea. s 8 csnon o %n sSe c pIesaaeni d Is N As9e
Dame. as to the merits or demerits of Nile.
Couedon's pretensions. A whisper Of the
fact that she had appeared before the soci-
ETY. got to the press and materialized I'm the
form of a little paragraph In the column OF
Fats Divers" Varied Facts. as what you
cal CITY Items, are styled in the French
dous crop of curiosity. fertilized and cult
waited by the publication OF larger and
larger items, day by day. until the subject
took up columns upon columns OF the Pa
risian press.
ANGEL GABRIEL'S TELEPHONE.
1t was thus that millions of readers speed
lily became aware cf the existence. the
pretensions and the whereabouts OF this
modern witch OF Endor, far removed as
she Is in dignity and power from the Great
ure who frightened old King Saul almost
out OF his whole skin. Mile. Couedon does
not raise visions direct from the abode
of the dead She simply serves as the re-
ceiver of an Invisible telephone. as 4, were.
| connected by a special wire with the Sew
| enth Heaven. where Angel Gabriel may oe
supposed 70 occupy one of the cabinet Of
fees of the Most High, and whence he
deigns 10 communicate by this means with
this mortal world
1t Is cited as one thing in favor OF Mile.
Couedon's prophetic faculty that she an
nounced beforehand the forced resignation
of Berthelot. the chemist Minister. But the
most striking thing OF all. perhaps. about
the amiable correspondence of the Angel
Gabriel vita the Children Of men Is his
condescension 10 matters OF small lndtvid-
ual import. He<may be sad to have made
IL hie. misstod. for = limited engagement
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