Jacques Auguste Simon Hake of Plancy
Jacques Auguste Simon Hake of Plancy , born the January 30th 1794 with Plancy-l' Abbey and dead the January 13rd 1881, is a writer French. He is the author of many works where the occult one disputes it with strange and with the fantastic one.
Free-thinker influenced by Voltaire, he is printer and publisher with Plancy-l' Abbye and Paris. Between 1830 and 1837, it resides at Brussels, then returns in France after having abjured its " erreurs" and operated a return to the Catholic religion.
Its most important work is its infernal Dictionnaire or universal library, on the beings, the characters, the books, the facts and the things, which hold with the appearances, the magic, the trade of the hell, the divinations, secret sciences, the black books, the wonders, the errors and the prejudices, the traditions and the popular tales, the various superstitions, and generally with all the marvellous beliefs, surprising, mysterious and supernatural , published in 1818 in which it counts all knowledge of the time relating to the superstitions and with the demonography.
Its publicity said for a specimen of 1822: “ Anecdotes of the nineteenth new century or historiettes, recent anecdotes, features and words little known, singular adventures, various quotations, bringings together and curious parts, to be used for the history of manners and the spirit of the century when we live compared with the last centuries. ”
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