Mallebranche (ca. 1618)
Seventeenth-century Frenchman haunted by his dead wife.
Mallebranche was a marker of the game of tennis, living in the
Rue Sainte-Geneviève, Paris, who in 1618 was visited by an apparition
of his wife, who had died five years before. She came
to advise him to repent and live a better life and to pray for her
also. Both Mallebranche and his wife (for he had married a second
time) heard the voice, but the apparition did not become
visible.
Sources
Histoire nouvelle et remarquable de lesprit dune femme qui cest
apparue au Faubourg Saint-Marcel après quelle a demeué cinq ans
entiers ensevelie; elle a parlé a son mari, lui a commandé de faire prier
pour elle, ayant commencé de parler le mardi II Decembre, 1618.
Paris, 1618.
