[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column bg_color=”hsl(0, 12%, 88%)” fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”2/3″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text]François Marie Gabriel Delanne (23 March 1857 – 15 February 1926) was a notable French spiritist, psychical researcher, writer, and electrical engineer.
He is best known for his book, “Le Phénomène spirite” (The Spiritist phenomenon).
Delanne was born in Paris in 1857. His father, Alexandre Delanne, was a friend of the well-known founder of Spiritism, Allan Kardec, and his mother was an automatic writing medium. Delanne was one of the principal exponents of Spiritism, apart from Léon Denis, after the death of Kardec.
Delanne’s writings were mainly concerned with the question of the immortality of the soul and with reincarnation.
As a spiritist, he favoured a scientific approach to psychic phenomena. He managed “La Revue scientifique et morale du spiritisme” (The Scientific and Ethical review of Spiritism), the journal of the “Union Spirite Française” (French Spiritist Union), from its first appearance in March 1883.
Gabriel Delanne died in Paris in 1926, and was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery.
Allan Kardec’s grave is at the Cimetière du Père Lachaise. On it an inscription says Naitre, mourir, renaitre encore et progresser sans cesse, telle est la loi (“To be born, die, again be reborn, and so progress unceasingly, such is the law”).
After his death caused by an aneurysm, Kardec was buried at the Cimetière du Père Lachaise.
Leading astronomer, scientist and Spiritist Camille Flammarion attended his funeral.
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