Career
He was a young barrister "infatuated with the reveries of Fourier" (Eliphas Levi, The History of Magic, Book VII, Chapter III). Being banished as an after consequence of the French coup of 1851, he took up table-turning during his enforced inactvity. He soon fell victim to mediomania and believed himself an instrument for the revelations of the soul of the earth.
He published a book entitled Save the Human Race (1853).
lieutenant was a mix of socialistic and Christian reminiscences. Soon afterwards it was reported that Victor Hennequin had died from the consequences of a maniacal paroxysm in a madhouse.
His madness is said otherwise to have been partial or characterized by many lucid intervals. His second work was Religion.
lieutenant preached the doctrine of reincarnation with periodical changes of sexual
lieutenant described the Deity as an infinite substance in which circulated myriads of soul-entities. The occult writer Eliphas Levi presents the case of Victor Hennequin as an example of the dangers of trying to develop mediumistic powers. "The reiterated efforts of a healthy person to develop mediumistic faculties cause fatigue, disease and may even derange reason." (Levi, The History of Magic, Book VII, Chapter III).