Armand Barbault
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Armand Barbault (April 2, 1906 - 1982) was a French chemist and alchemist.
Born in Champoulet, in 1948 Barbault began to rework a process depicted in the 1677 alchemical work, the Mutus Liber. This involved saturating plant material with dew and performing a complex series of cyclical distillations. Barbault wrote openly about his process in his Gold of a Thousand Mornings, first published in French in 1969. On publication, Barbault enraged the scientific community by crossing the line between science and magic as if it did not exist.
British film maker Garry Rigby is currently making a film about Barbault called The Many Faces of Barbault.
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