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French physicist Jules Violle, also known as the alchemist FulcanelliOn this day in 1841, in the French town of Langres, was born Jules Violle, celebrated French physicist, member of the French Academy of Sciences, and alchemist. Better known under his pen name Fulcanelli, Jules Violle wrote two important alchemical texts,
The Mystery of the Cathedrals and The
Dwellings of the Philosophers, as well as leaving the notes for a third volume,
Finis Gloriae Mundi, a work that was withdrawn before publication.