The Novel That Mirrored Napoleon’s Fate
The French writer Émile Deschamps wrote a poem about a man sharing plum pudding with a stranger. Years later, the exact thing happened to him – at the same time, in the same place, with the same man. The encounter was identical to his literary fantasy.
Deschamps was so shocked that he believed he had foreseen his own fate. Many considered it an example of precognitive intuition. Others suspected a conscious recourse to past experiences. No matter how you look at it, the story raises questions about reality and fiction.
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