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Portrait of Mademoiselle Marie-Anne Adelaide Le Normand

François Dumont · c. 1793

Portrait of Mademoiselle Marie-Anne Adelaide Le Normand by François Dumont: Mademoiselle Marie-Anne Adelaide Le Normand, a famous Parisian fortune teller, was born in Alençon…

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In Portrait of Mademoiselle Marie-Anne Adelaide Le Normand, start with classical, portrait, figurative. Then look closely at this museum-described detail: Little is known of her early years, but by 1790 she had already established a strong following in Paris.

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Mademoiselle Marie-Anne Adelaide Le Normand, a famous Parisian fortune teller, was born in Alençon, France, between 1768 and 1772. Little is known of her early years, but by 1790 she had already established a strong following in Paris. Fortune telling was a highly lucrative field perhaps due to the extreme political unrest that permeated Paris in the 1790s.

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