Today is the 242nd anniversary of the birth of Mademoiselle Marie Anne Adélaïde Le Normand, la sibylle du Faubourg Saint-Germain. Mademoiselle was born in Alençon, in Lower Normandy, where her baptismal records states she was born in 1772 rather than 1768 which has been claimed. She was the youngest of three children born to her […]
