'''Anne-Victorine Savigny''' (1844–1916), or '''Anne-Victorine de Savigny''',<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Nagel |first=Alexandra H. M. |date=2021-06-30 |title=From Chiromancy to Psychochirology: The Modern Transformation of a Mantic Art |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/arie/21/2/article-p246_4.xml |journal=Aries |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=246–270 |doi=10.1163/15700593-02102002 |issn=1567-9896}}</ref> or '''Anne-Victorine de Savigny''', was a French [[clairvoyant]] and [[palm reader]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ruickbie |first=Leo |date=2018-11-18 |title=Madame de Thèbes Foresees War |url=https://angelsinthetrenches.com/1913/madame-de-thebes-foresees-war/ |access-date=2024-07-28 |website=Angels in the Trenches}}</ref> She was the main source of reference for the name Madame de Thèbes. She studied [[chiromancy]] under [[Adolphe Desbarrolles]] and was also a personal friend of [[Alexandre Dumas fils|Alexandre Dumas ''fils'']]. She plied her trade from her living room at No. 29 [[Avenue de Wagram]] in Paris.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=puXmVBQSCjAC&pg=PA76 |title=Pierre Mac Orlan: His Life, His Time |access-date=27 December 2013|isbn=9782600036931 |last=Baritaud |first=Bernard |year=1992 |publisher=Librairie Droz}}</ref> Every Christmas since 1903, she published her [[prophecy|prophecies]] in an ''Almanac'', which enjoyed wide circulation. She was said to have predicted the following world events:<ref name="nyt">{{cite news | title = Mme. de Thebes's War Prophecies | newspaper = The New York Times | date = 21 March 1915 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1915/03/21/119029439.pdf | access-date = April 8, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Tervagne |first=Simone de |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Le_livre_d_or_de_la_voyance/PDoeQwAACAAJ?hl=en |title=Le livre d'or de la voyance: de Madame de Thèbes à Yaguel Didier |date=1986 |publisher=Garancière |isbn=978-2-7340-0180-5 |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hentges |first=Ernst |date=1919 |title=Madame de Thèbes und Mademoiselle Le Normand |url=https://dl.ub.uni-freiburg.de/diglit/zb_okkultismus1919/0082?sid=bb431b107cc2104a8603fe919770e3b4 |journal=Zentralblatt für Okkultismus |volume=2/3 |pages=78-86 |language=de}}</ref>
