14 November 2016

Cimetière du Père-Lachaise (continued): #44: Papus (Gérard Encausse)


'ICI REPOSE LE CORPS DE
GÉRARD ENCAUSSE
"PAPUS"
MÉDECIN PHILOSOPHE ÉCRIVAIN
GRAND MAÎTRE
DE L'ORDRE MARTINISTE
DÉSINCARNÉ
LE 25 OCTOBRE 1916
À L'ÂGE DE 51 ANS'

Papus (1865–1916), born Gérard Anaclet Vincent Encausse in Spain to a Spanish mother and a French father, spent his childhood in Paris, where he became a doctor in 1894. He became interested in the occult, and is one of the more colourful figures of the Belle Époque.

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