Item - A Prophetic Banquet

(source: Stanford Libraries)

Online Full Text:	Stanford Digital Repository
Series:	New York Weekly — v. 32 no. 5 — page 8
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XXXII, no. 5, December 18, 1876 (Issue)
Author:	Urner, Nathan D.
Date:	December 18, 1876
First Sentence:	Whether explained by Illuminism, Magnetism, or Supernaturalism, or whether accredited to genuine prophetic inspiration, the wonderful banquet at which Jacques Cazotte enunciated his starling prediction upon the threshold of the French Revolution-afterward so faithfully verified in almost eveyr particular, as was earnestly attested by La Harpe, Madame de Genlis, Madame la Comtesse de Beauharnais, and others-remains one of the most dramatic and picturesque social incidents on record, and is, perhaps, without a parallel, if we except Belshazzar's feast and the Writing upon the Wall.
Last Sentence:	If we are to believe Madame de Genlis, and others, there was not one who escaped the doom so marvelously foreshadowed and foretold at the Prophetic Banquet.