At age five, she moved to Brussels with her parents.įrom early childhood, David-Neel was odd and sickly, preferring solitude to the company of friends. Her father, Louis David, was a Huguenot activist and friend of novelist Victor Hugo. She was born Louise Eugenie Alexandrine Marie David on October 24, 1868, in Paris. David-Neel loved adventure and said that the surest Elixir is not an alchemical formula but travel and intellectual activity.ĭavid-Neel claimed to be descended from Genghis Khan on her mother’s side. Her knowledge influenced the magical practices of other Western occultists, such as FRANZ BARDON. She spent 14 years in Tibet and became one of the first Westerners to learn Tibetan secrets of Magic and mysticism. Alexandra David-Neel led an exotic life and was the first Western woman to enter Llasa, the forbidden capital of Tibet. David-Neel, Alexandra (1868–1969) French explorer, occultist, and Tibetan scholar.
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