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Émile Hureau

1877–1922

Known for an early 20th-century study of telepathy, this French writer explored the borderland between science, psychology, and the occult. His work captures a moment when unusual ideas were being discussed with real intellectual curiosity.

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De la télépathie: Étude sur la transmission de la pensée

De la télépathie: Étude sur la transmission de la pensée

by Émile Hureau

About the author

Émile Hureau was a French author born in 1877 and died in 1922. He is best known today for De la télépathie: Étude sur la transmission de la pensée, published in 1920 and later preserved by Gallica and Project Gutenberg.

In that book, he examined telepathy as a subject worth studying rather than dismissing outright. The tone is serious and explanatory, and the work reflects a period when writers and researchers were trying to understand unusual mental phenomena through observation, debate, and popular science.

Very little biographical information appears to be readily available from the sources found here, so his public profile seems to rest mainly on this surviving work. Even so, the book offers a vivid glimpse of the curiosity and experimental spirit that surrounded occult and psychological questions in the early 1900s.