Mr. P.-F. Mathieu.

Having died on February 12, 1864, Mr. Mathieu was very well known in the Parisian Spiritist world, where he attended several meetings, in which he took an active part. He had occupied himself with Spiritist phenomena since their origin; we came to know him when we were carrying out our first preliminary works. The nature of his spirit led him to doubt and, long after he himself had experimented by means of the planchette, he refused to recognize the action of Spirits. Later his ideas changed and, in the last days, he no longer showed himself so radically opposed to reincarnation. Mr. Mathieu admitted only with difficulty, and over time, that which was not within his ideas. But he was not a systematic adversary and, although he did not entirely share the doctrines set forth in The Spirits' Book, we must do him justice, for, in his polemic, he never strayed from the bounds of the most perfect propriety. His gentleness and the honorableness of his character made him esteemed and lamented by all who knew him. He died at the moment when he was putting the finishing touch to an important work on the convulsionaries, which Messrs. Didier & Co. have just published. [Histoire des miraculés et des convulsionnaires de Saint-Médard: … — Google Books.]

Allan Kardec.

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