Crossword-Solution: PLANCHETTE 10 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

Upon her doubting whether her sub-conscious self might in some way be producing the writing, which was partly done by planchette, the script was written upside down and from right to left, as though the writer was seated opposite.

Lecamus knew that, instead of travelling in a litter, Catherine intended to go on horseback, _a la planchette_,--such was the name given to a sort of stirrup invented for or by the queen-mother, who, having hurt her leg on some occasion, ordered a velvet-covered saddle with a plank on which she could place both feet by sitting sideways on the horse and passing one leg through a depression in the saddle.

Edmund Gosse, who can hardly have been acquainted with the Chinese view, told a similar story in his _Father and Son_: "During morning and evening prayers, which were extremely lengthy and fatiguing, I fancied that one of my two selves could flit up, and sit clinging to the cornice, and look down on my other self and the rest of us." In some parts of China, planchette is frequently resorted to as a means of reading the future, and adapting one's actions accordingly.

From Paris to Ile-Adam, to Villers-Cotterets, to Frétoy, to Planchette, to Soissons, to Rheims, to Grisolles, to Sillery, to Braine, to Balincourt, to Vaudreuil, the Comte and Comtesse de Genlis thus bear about their leisure, their wit, their gaiety, at the domiciles of friends whom, in their turn, they entertain at Genlis.

The boy stared drowsily at the planchette, jerking this way and that, and making abrupt starts and stops.