Bad Girl

Attention! This audio recording contains obscene language.

Historical figures, interesting facts—easy and with humor, as presented by Diana Udovichenko. Listen, laugh, learn! Be careful: it’s hot, sexual, with the use of taboo vocabulary! But boredom won’t happen!

Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand (May 27, 1772, Alençon, France — June 23, 1843, Paris) was a French fortune-teller and diviner.

Marie was born on May 27, 1772 in Alençon, a small town near Paris, to a cloth merchant’s family, with congenital defects—one leg shorter than the other, shoulders crooked. Because of the child’s ugliness and her incomprehensible abilities that frightened them, her parents sent the little daughter to an orphanage attached to a women’s convent. In the convent library, Marie read all the books on numerology, magic, esotericism, and other secret knowledge. At sixteen, she left the convent and went to Paris to earn a living. In 1790, together with one of her friends, Marie opened her own fortune-telling salon on Rue de Tournon, where anyone who wished had their fate predicted using astrology, cards, and other methods. It is believed that after predictions came true for Marat, Robespierre, and Saint-Just, Lenormand came to be called the “Black Marie.”