1853: The ship Washington, departs from 1848: New York to the port of Breme, taking •Spoke German, English, Italian, Hydesville (NY) mediums, books, brochures and gazettes. and Spanish. The press announces for the first time the arrival started from an American of the movement in Europe on April 1853. •Translated a variety of works movement called Modern La Table, le Livre et les Esprits,page 19 - Marion Aubree and François Laplantine on education 1854: Rivail was told for the first •Student from 1815 to 1824 time about the turning tables. “…but it can also be made to speak. Ask •Pedagogue from 1824 to 1848 it a question, and it replies.” (Fortier) Pestalozzi in Stans In 1815, Hipolyte Leon Denizard Rivail was Gemälde von Albert Anker 1870 “It was there that I first saw the phenomenon of turning tables.” sent to study in Yverdon, Switzerland at the •Founded in an establishment similar to “One night, his protector spirit, Zephiro, sent him a Institute created by Henri Pestalozzi. very personal message, saying that he had met in in the one of Yverdon - Institute Technique a previous life, as a Druid in Galia. He was then named .” An illustration of an examination of the Fox Henry Sausse •wrote books: grammar, arithmetic, higher Sisters by Dr. Austin Flint in 1851. pedagogical studies. “I will only believe it when it is proven to me that a table has a brain with which to think, nerves •taught courses: chemistry, physics, astronomy, with which to feel, and the ability to reach a state of somnambulism.” (PW) and comparative anatomy. (1835- 1840) •member of various scholarly and scientific societies.

“There exist no poetical instincts in me; (...)what I appreciate the most On April 18th, 1857, a Saturday during spring, The Spirits’ Book in others is the clarity, the limpidity, and Allan Kardec were for the first time introduced to the public at the Dentu’s book store, the precision (...).” at 13 Galleria of Orleans, Palais- •Denizard was taken by Royal, Paris an unstoppable desire to Rivail dedicated his life to education, convinced that learn. One of the rare photographs only through it is possible of Allan Kardec presenting to improve the human The Spirits’ Book being.

“Kardec realizes that to prepare a The First Book •He woke up at 4:30 a.m. complete body of knowledge it was necessary to methodically prepare every morning to study. questions that would be addressed to the spirits every week. •At the age of fourteen, he started teaching his schoolmates.

1n 1823, Rivail became interested Kardec and Amélie in the studies of mesmerism. He started to participate in the Boudet got married on works of the Magnetism Society of February 1832. Paris, becoming a magnetizer.

Franz Anton Mesmer Allan Kardec died as Amélie spiritual strength (1733-1815) he lived: WORKING. and moral purity were precious allies to Kardec’s mission, of codifying and disseminating Spiritism. He was handing an issue of The Spiritist Review to a book store clerk who had just bought it. He bent over and without pronouncing a single word, he died.