The Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism involved two entirely separate and independent French Royal Commissions, each appointed by Louis XVI in 1784, that were conducted simultaneously by a committee
Portrait of Louis XVI by Joseph Duplessis (1776)
Marie Antoinette
Chancellor von Kaunitz
Princess of Lamballe
Franz Mesmer
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Franz Anton Mesmer was a German physician with an interest in astronomy. He theorized the existence of a process of natural energy transference occurring between all animate and inanimate objects; thi
Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism
…magnetic fluid", le fluide magnétique. Further, having completed their investigations into the claims of d'Eslon – that is, they did not examine Franz Mesmer, Mesmer's theories, Mesmer's principles, Mesmer's practices, Mesmer's techniques, Mesmer's apparatus, Mesmer's claims, Mesmer's "cures" or, even…
Print of Franz Anton Mesmer (Musée de la Révolution française)
De planetarum influxu in corpus humanum
Mesmer's grave in the cemetery in Meersburg, Germany.