Historical dream account · English · machine translation
The foot-burning robbers and the duchesse d’Abrantès
L.-F.-Alfred Maury
Le sommeil et les rêves (1861) · Original 1861 edition, printed pp. 127
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Sixth observation. A hot iron is brought near my face, held far enough away for the sensation of heat to be slight. I dream of the chauffeurs, who broke into houses and forced the people there to reveal where their money was by bringing their feet close to a brazier. The idea of these chauffeurs soon brings that of the duchesse d’Abrantès, who, in my dream, I suppose has taken me on as her secretary. I had indeed once read some details about the chauffeurs in the Memoirs of this witty woman.
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Les chauffeurs et la duchesse d’Abrantès
Sixième observation. On approche de ma figure un fer chaud, en le tenant assez éloigné pour que la sensation de chaleur soit légère. Je rêve des chauffeurs, qui s’introduisaient dans les maisons et forçaient ceux qui s’y trouvaient, en leur approchant les pieds près d’un brasier, à déclarer où était leur argent. L’idée de ces chauffeurs amène bientôt celle de la duchesse d’Abrantès que je suppose en songe m’avoir pris pour secrétaire. J’avais jadis lu en effet dans les Mémoires de cette femme d’esprit quelques détails sur les chauffeurs.
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Named historical author’s own recalled sleep-dream; not a modern community submission or invented scene. One of Maury’s own numbered recalled sleep-dream observations, introduced on pp. 125–126. The reported stimulus and dream are retained as historical narrative, not an independently verified causal or clinical finding.
L.-F.-Alfred Maury, Le sommeil et les rêves (Paris: Didier et cie., 1861), original French text, printed pp. 127. Source: Wellcome Collection. Titles and navigation themes are editorial labels, not source headings.
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Original 1861 edition, printed pp. 127
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