LYONNAIS SPIRITISM 1906Drawings and automatic writings, 1906Cahier de brouillon à la mine de plomb. Dated in ink January 6 - December 11, 1906. annotated belonging to "Deshayes" crossed out in ink . A second similar notebook dated 1908 is attached. 22,5 x 17,5 cm It was under the impulse of Allan Kardec that the Société de Spirite Lyonnais was born in the middle of the 19th century. Interested for many years in the phenomena known as animal magnetism, hypnotism and somnambulism, he wrote in 1854 the Livre des Esprits, the first true explanation, both theoretical and practical, of these strange phenomena.