Author: Privat, Maurice [1889-19??]
Title: 1939, annee de reprise. Predictions de Maurice Privat
Description: Paris, Editions Medicis, 1938. orig.wrappers. 20x14cm, xvi,122 pp.. Rubbed. Some page browning. Good. ¶ In Paris the astonishing feats of political tightrope-walking, by which Pierre Laval last week had maintained himself as Premier of France for seven months, have gradually focused fascinated interest upon M. Maurice Privat. Reporters see this little man in horn spectacles waddle through the great iron gates of the Quai d'Orsay and up to the Premier's state apartments several times each week. Although known principally today as Paris' No. 1 Astrologer, M. Privat has behind him many years of working journalism. He is the author of a fat stack of works comprising his investigations of celebrated judicial cases, exotic crimes and the lives of statesmen he knew as a reporter. The incredible report which much of Paris now avidly believes is that Astrologer Privat assists Premier Laval from day to day in charting the course of the French Republic and more especially in trying to solve the Ethiopian Question. To call upon Maurice Privat recently went a close friend of the astrologer who happens to be the same sort of journalist-investigator he once was. Soon Privat was volubly discussing his new profession: "I have been an astrologer now for three years. Astrology is a marvelous science and an infallible one, whereas clairvoyance is a gift and arrives at only problematical conclusions...."- Time Magazine, Monday, Jan. 27, 1936 ]

Keywords: French Astrology, Prophecy, Predictions, France, 1939, , , ,