Le magnétisme militant : origine et histoire des luttes, progrès et conquêtes de la science : le somnambulisme aux prises avec les corps savants, calomnié, traduit devant la haute magistrature et défendu par les sommites du Barreau / par L.P. Mongruel.
Le magnétisme militant is an 1851 Paris treatise by Louis Pierre Mongruel, self-published, on animal magnetism and somnambulism, aimed at a general readership interested in mesmerism and its legal disputes. Its single plate is a soft lithographic portrait of a seated woman in a dark bodice with a cameo brooch, one hand raised to her cheek, her ringlets falling past her shoulders over a sheer shawl; the crisp tonal hatching and gentle vignetted edges suggest a mid-century French portrait print a designer could draw on for period costume, hairstyle, or delicate sepia-toned editorial imagery.
