She is one of the very few whose prophecies have been recorded in history books.
She was born in Aleçon, France and died in Paris, France at the age of 71 on June 25, 1843. She learned to read cards and palms when she was very young. It is said that she used the Petit Etteila, Playing Cards, Thot tarot and other cards. A few years after her death a deck of cards called "Le Grand Jeu de Mlle. Lenormand" was published by Grimaud.
It is said that this Lenormand oracle deck was made and designed having on account what Lenormand's friends and clients knew about them, but it is difficult for me to believe it. Other theories say it was just a marketing stunt.
Marie Anne Adelaïde Lenormand became most famous for counselling Josephine de Beauharnais. She foretold that Josephine will become empress of France, she become Napoleon's wife later on. She was also famous for divining the future for three men of the Revolution, whom she foretold a violent death: Marat, Robespierre and St. Just.
Later on Mlle. Lenormand warned Josephine that Napoleon wanted to divorce her before he had mentioned this to anyone. Napoleon was so angry that he ordered to jail her.
In 1814 she began to write her memoirs and other books, in which she wrote about her dealings with prominent parisians...
Her books are:
* Les souvenirs prophétiques d'une sibylle (1814)
* Anniversaire de la mort de l'impératrice Josephine (1815)
* La sibylle au tombeau de Louis XVI(1816)
* Les oracles sibyllins (1817)
* La sibylle au congrès d'Aix-la-Chapelle (1819)
* Mémoires historiques et secrets de l'impératrice Joséphine (1820)
* Souvenirs de la Belgique (1822)
* L'ombre de Henri IV au palais d'Orléans (1831)
* Le petit homme rouge au château des Tuileries (1831)
* L'ange protecteur de la France au tombeau de Louis XVIII
* Arrêt suprême des dieux de l'Olympe en faveur de Mme. la duchesse de Berry et de son fils
* Manifeste des dieux sur les affaires de France
* Mélanges
* L'ombre immortelle de Catherine II au tombeau d'Alexandre Ier