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Henri Antoine Jules-Bois (or simply Jules Bois; 29 September 1868,
Marseille
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– 2 July 1943,
New York), was a
French writer with an interest in the
occult.
He wrote ''Le Satanisme et la magie'' (''Satanism and Magic''). He was a noted friend of
McGregor Mathers, the founder of the
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn ( la, Ordo Hermeticus Aurorae Aureae), more commonly the Golden Dawn (), was a secret society devoted to the study and practice of occult Hermeticism and metaphysics during the late 19th and early 20th ...
.
In a 1909 essay for ''
The New York Times
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'', Bois successfully predicted the rise of
suburbia
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, the onset of
gender equality
Gender equality, also known as sexual equality or equality of the sexes, is the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including economic participation and decision-making; and the state of valuing d ...
and technical innovations such as a
flying bicycle (though he overestimated its success).
100 years on, thinker's predictions mostly true
''Toronto Star
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'', September 17, 2009
References
External links
Archive of his papers
at Georgetown University
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1868 births
1943 deaths
Writers from Marseille
20th-century French non-fiction writers
French occult writers
20th-century French male writers
French male non-fiction writers
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