Extraordinary Life of Marie Louise Brault
- Westminster, MD / Montreal, Canada: Newman Book Shop / Joliet Institute Reg'd, 1941
Westminster, MD / Montreal, Canada: Newman Book Shop / Joliet Institute Reg'd, 1941. Very Good/Very Good-. Westminster, MD / Montreal, Canada: Newman Book Shop / Joliet Institute Reg'd, [1941]. First English Language Edition. Octavo (23cm); publisher's cloth in white printed dust jacket retaining original price ($3.50); xiii,[1],306pp.; portrait frontispiece and plates throughout. Jacket margins quite chipped and worn with shallow loss along bottom edge of upper panel (remnant affixed to cloth, occasional soil spots to jacket and textblock edges; overall Good to Very Good. Translated from the Second Edition, Revised and Corrected.
Uncommon biography of the Canadian mystic Marie Louis Brault (1856-1910) whose life was filled with unusual phenomena, including poltergeist-like disruptions in her home. One contemporary remembered, “She had on her forehead a line of deep wounds, from which blood issued. . . . She had similar wounds on [her] hands, feet, and side. These wounds became deeper during Lent" (Dictionary of Canadian Biography).
Uncommon biography of the Canadian mystic Marie Louis Brault (1856-1910) whose life was filled with unusual phenomena, including poltergeist-like disruptions in her home. One contemporary remembered, “She had on her forehead a line of deep wounds, from which blood issued. . . . She had similar wounds on [her] hands, feet, and side. These wounds became deeper during Lent" (Dictionary of Canadian Biography).