Considerations XX: 4 The French astrologer, André Barbault was born in Champigneulles, France (48N44, 6E10) at 5.00 p.m. GMT on 1st October 1921. He began studying astrology at the age of 14 and has not stopped since then. He created a popular series Collection Zodiaque (Le Seuil Edition) in 195556 (which is now republished) and he has written over 30 books on astrology, on a wide range of subjects, from Traité pratique d’astrologie and De la Psychanalyse à l’Astrologie (Le Seuil Edition, 1961), to L’Astrologie Mondiale, (Fayard Edition, 1982), L’Univers Astrologique des Quatre Eléments (Editions Traditionnelles, 1992), Astralités des Femmes Illustres (Rocher Edition, 1998), Uranus-Neptune-Pluton (Editions Traditionnelles), and recently Introduction à l’Astrologie Mondiale (Editions du Rocher). His latest book Astrologie: Symboliques – Calculs – Interprétations, (Le Seuil Edition, June 2005) is a must buy. He has also written numerous articles for various astrological magazines. He lectures in France and internationally. From 1968 to 2003, he was the chief editor of the quarterly magazine, l’astrologue, for which more than 250 authors have written. Andre Barbault recently opened a French website: andrebarbault.com, on which many of his previously unpublished texts can be found. Mundane astrology has been and continues to be André Barbault’s first love and he is most widely known for his work with the Cyclic Index which takes into account the angular separation between each of the pairs of the five outer planets. Françoise Moderne, whose excellent translation of André Barbault’s extensive analysis of Napoleon’s horoscope this is, has been a passionate student of astrology for over 30 years. She is a fervent admirer of Barbault and has translated several of his writings in English. One of her interviews with him was published in The Mountain Astrologer in 1998. In 1985 Françoise created an astrological group in Montpellier, Le Centre Méditerranéen d’Astrologie that she continues to lead. Since 1998, after retiring from teaching, she has held regular free monthly meetings on astrology in a French café.
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