Historical dream account · French · original text
The porcelain figurines come alive
Léon d’Hervey de Saint-Denys
Les Rêves et les moyens de les diriger; observations pratiques (1867) · Part III-IV; printed pages 323; normalized source paragraphs 48; Wikisource revision 5569465
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Une autre nuit, qui suivit un jour où j’avais regardé longtemps et très attentivement une collection de porcelaines de Chine, « je vis en rêve une foule de petites figurines lilliputiennes, construites et vêtues avec toute la bizarrerie de proportions, de formes et de couleurs qui caractérise la peinture céramique du Céleste Empire. Tout cela marchait, se mouvait, agissait, se montrait, en un mot, sous des aspects tout à fait différents de ceux que ma mémoire aurait pu retenir d’une façon stéréotype. »
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A historical recorded dream in the original French. Descriptive English title is an editorial navigation label, not a translation of the account. Any author interpretation or speculation is preserved as historical commentary, not as a modern scientific finding. This is not a modern Synastry community submission.
Léon d’Hervey de Saint-Denys, Les Rêves et les moyens de les diriger; observations pratiques (Paris: Amyot,1867), part III-IV, pp.323. Original French, Wikisource transcription revision 5569465.
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Part III-IV; printed pages 323; normalized source paragraphs 48; Wikisource revision 5569465
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