RENÉ SUDRE (1880-1968): THE METAPSYCHIST'S QUILL.

René Sudre was an active metapsychist (parapsychologist) from the very beginning of the Institut Métapsychique International (IMI) of Paris. He was well know for his various chronicles on paranormal phenomena, especially his obsession with separating metapsychic research from spiritism. A brief biographical sketch is given that also describes his careers as a journalist and populariser of science. For forty years Sudre pursued a naturalist agenda: examining the scientific enigmas of the 20th century that were the subject-matter of parapsychology. At first he played a key role in the IMI (1921-1926), but he had to leave this metapsychic research foundation after a clash. He went on to have a distinguished international career while remaining one of the most prominent of French psychists. In 1956, he published his Traité de Parapsychologie, which was translated into several langu~ges and is still an impressive textbook. He made valuable contributions to parapsychology on both experimental and theoretical issues; for instance, with his model of prosopopesis-metagnomy, which helped him to counter spiritualist interpretations of the phenomena. This paper aims to remember this forgotten pioneer of parapsychology, and to expound some of his central ideas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]