Sheds new light on the identity of the alchemist Fulcanelli. o Provides new understanding of the relationships between the most important figures of the esoteric milieu of Paris in the first half of the 20th century. o Includes a wealth of rarely seen documents, photos, and letters. Fulcanelli, operative alchemist and author of "The Mystery of the Cathedrals" and "The Dwellings of the Philosophers" - two of the most important esoteric works of the twentieth century - remains himself a mystery. The true identity of the man who allegedly succeeded in creating the philosopher's stone has never been discovered, despite ardent searches by many - even the OSS (the wartime U.S. intelligence agency, later to become the CIA) claimed to have looked for him following the end of World War II. Genevi?ve Dubois looks at the esoteric milieu of Paris at the turn of the century, a time that witnessed a great revival of the alchemical tradition, and investigates some of its...

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