French physician and occultist born Gerard Anaclet Vincent Encausse. Led a major occult revival in Belle Epoque Paris, founded Martinist Orders, and popularized the Tarot through systematic analysis. His salon became a crossroads for esoteric France.
Systematized and popularized the Tarot as an esoteric system in The Tarot of the Bohemians; revived Martinist mysticism as an initiatic order; bridged popular and academic occultism in France.
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