Black Magic in Nineteenth Century France
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Eugène Vintras was informed by spirits he had to found a new religious order together with the true king of France, Louis XVII, who had to be Nostradamus’ Great Monarch. And Joris-Karl Huysmans was writing a book on satanism with a defrocked priest in it, who performed black masses and was not inspired by the infamous abbé Boullan, but by the chaplain of the Holy Blood of Bruges…
Down There: A History of Satanism
In 1890, the already famous French “decadent” writer Joris-Karl Huysmans wrote to a friend that he was looking for “a demoniac sodomite priest” who performed the black mass. He needed him for a new book, now known as “Là-bas” or “Down There”.



