Jessica Jewett / Celine of Paris


Although there is no known portrait of Celine, this portrait is a good representation of how Jessica remembers the physical appearance.

As told by Jessica Jewett.


This particular case was not something I expected, nor was I even seeking to uncover. I would have never guessed that I passed through France (more than once, as it turns out) simply because I never felt pulled to that region of Europe when I was young. In fact, I usually had a brief moment of recoiling in fear whenever I saw or heard something French. Negative events leave deeper scars on the soul, so most people will remember the bad before the good. I've had recurring nightmares of events surrounding the French Revolution and my death in that revolution for a long time, although my limited knowledge of European history never made me say, "This is the French Revolution!" Compared to Fanny, I know very little about myself in France. Ordinarily, I would have dismissed such initial nightmares as just that - simple nightmares - because a past life case cannot be based on dreams alone. I got to know myself quite intimately during the process of understanding my past as Fanny and part of that process included learning to decipher actual past life memories vs random conjecture from my subconscious mind. It's quite common that once you go through the gateway past life, it leaves you open to experiencing memories, whether emotional, mental or physical, from other previous lives as well, just the same as the theory that once you've been touched by paranormal phenomenon, you are susceptible to being touched by it again. After I quit fighting the concept of reincarnation in the context of Fanny Chamberlain, I began experiencing even more intense recollections of an earlier time. And when I allowed myself to look into it, I began to understand the nature of my initial distaste for France.

I was a young girl in the last days of the French monarchy, having come from what I believe to be a low-ranking aristocratic family. My hair was strawberry blonde, I had blue eyes, and looked more like myself now than I did as Fanny (I suspect my anger in the last moments of France made me want to come back as a total opposite - poor, dark looks, democratic American). I gather through several avenues of spiritual exploration with myself and others that my whole name was something like Joceline but I was called Celine and even something that sounded like "see-lee" by intimates. As for where we lived, I have memories of two homes - one was in Paris very close to the Seine and the other was in the country. I'm drawn to the Chartres area if I focus on a map, and I know there were relatives in Provence who looked a bit Italian (one of those relatives was an enemy then and still is an enemy now). There was an older sister who I have called Madeleine in dreams and she had a fiance called Claude as well. I make references to dreams being the source of these names just because I tend to be on the skeptical side without historical documentation to back up the claims, although other mediums and psychics have independently given me these names before I was public with this case. Madeleine was, to me at the time, a goody-goody who did whatever she could to please our parents. There are undercurrents of tension in my memories because our mother was not stable and could not have more children after my birth. I was supposed to be a boy and a great disappointment since I was just a girl. My present mind interprets myself at that time as the rebellious spirit Fanny was often and would have been more if she was not bogged down by depression in different periods of life. If I wasn't what they wanted, then I intended to be what I wanted. There was also a great deal of tension in our family because my sister was not technically allowed to be engaged to Claude, who had a military background. I've never fully understood the reasons but I think our parents were somewhat reaching and thought Madeleine could have made a better match. She and I got closer as we grew, until she became involved with secret societies and hid in a convent until the end.

The part of the story that I almost never share in public is the most painful for me. While my sister was involved with a perfectly respectable but not so wealthy man, I was involved with a man who was little more than a peasant. Even now, I'm drawing a blank on what to write here because it was so deeply ingrained in my being as Celine to keep it a secret that I had a horrible struggle with letting it out in the present. He is someone that I know now, going back to the information about soul groups discussed on this website, but I cannot identify him in public. I will say that we were romantically involved in secret for a few years leading up to the revolution. When the revolutionaries began rounding up aristocratic families for inprisonment and execution, mine was one of them. I hid and got away, which made my lover decide that the only way I'd be safe is to escape the country, so we attempted the escape. Somehow we were caught and I was taken away for the simple fact that I tried to escape. I'm not entirely certain about the sequence of events but I believe I was executed the winter following Marie Antoinette. I have some knowledge of historical events like the September massacres that I should not have and were explained to me by French historians based upon the images in my memories.

I now understand that I went to the guillotine with deep resentment and anger - so deep that I see signs of it resonating in Fanny's life. Something so simple as a little French girl hero worshipping Marie Antoinette grew into a naive view of that life divorced from the reality of suffering peasants. Thousands of French people on all sides were innocently killed, some not so innocently, and many in between. Barely a woman and executed for crimes you didn't commit and you don't understand, it will leave a scar on your soul if you're not able to make peace with it before death. I died confused, angry, in anguish, and alone. These things I carried on a subconscious level into the next life as Fanny 32 years later, who suffered from bouts of depression for largely inexplicable reasons. As with my past life case of Fanny, there are parallel dates found between these three lives, mainly in October and November. For example, Marie Antoinette's execution took place on October 16, 1793, which became the birthdate of Fanny's first child in 1856, and then the date of my miscarriage in 2005. Additionally, I went to Paris in the 1870s as Fanny for the Great Exhibition and attended a party at the Palace of Versailles, a place where I often visited in my lifetime as Celine. In the Fanny lifetime, my decorating and fashion tastes reflected aristocratic finery despite near-poverty. At least one common name carried over between the three lifetimes as Fanny's last daughter was named Gertrude Lorraine. I also greatly admire Lorraine Warren as a leader in paranormal research. Lorraine was part of Marie Antoinette's full name. Artistic and musical habits carried over between the three lifetimes and beyond as well.

Despite the concise way I wrote this as if everything was handed to me in a neat package, nothing could be further from the truth. It has been harder putting together this puzzle than it was putting together Fanny's puzzle because I at least had documentation to confirm information I knew about that time. I don't speak French well enough, nor do I have the time or energy to spend another ten years trying to prove another previous life. I know myself well enough now to trust my instincts, which was something I didn't do when I went through the Fanny revelation, and that was why I spent so much time trying to disprove it (then actually proving it). There is no real purpose in me following the paper trail this time except to prove it to skeptics. I'm not in that business. I'm in the business of helping people through my experiences who need help, as well as completing my own unfinished lessons and correcting damaged relationships. If I am made aware of a past life - the same as anyone else - it's because there are things that should be learned from it.

What can possibly be learned from the 1700s that applies to the present? Plenty of things. Mainly human interaction and how the healing of damaged relationships can only happen if both souls are on the path to evolution. Those who resisit learning from their life experiences will continue repeating the same mistakes for centuries and drifting further and further away from peace and contentment. I believe my time as Celine was about soaking in the events around her like a sponge, good and bad, and my time as Fanny was about sorting through everything accumulated and recovering from the wreckage. Celine's experiences were very external, whereas Fanny's experiences were very internal. The thing that really solidified the truth in this past life for me was the fact that many of the other people from that time have shared memories with me, things that I never verbalized before they told me. Common memories between people cannot possibly be coincidental when expressed in detail.

Many of the people in my soul group have been traced to a great many of my lifetimes and 1700s France as well. It was a big period full of big characters and a lot of extravegance. For that reason, I believe it has been easier to identify people from overlapping soul groups as well. There has been, in my experience, a strange phenomena of creative, charismatic leaders and their followers from the Enlightenment being present now with the same followers. Certain musical bands with unusually close relationships with their fans, for example, are turning up in my research as coming from the Enlightenment and other periods. Leaders do not always return as leaders just like followers do not always return as followers. Many of us have switched roles from then until now. The dynamics of soul groups and the way they interact with each other, especially in times of regional or worldly upheaval, leads one to understand how everyone is interconnected and we all have to pull our own weight. For me personally, the people I knew from France include Madeleine, my lover, my mother, several people within my household (i.e. servants), friends, enemies, and so forth. Most of them are aware of who they are and some of them are here on this website to share their stories to help you understand soul groups. Sometimes I come across someone who I recognize from France but they won't know it in this lifetime because they're not evolved enough to understand. Every soul develops at a different rate. Some evolve faster than others. Typically those who did bad things in France for selfish gain are still repeating those mistakes. Others who were too traumatized by the things they saw back then have come back skimming the surface of life and behaving recklessly and frivolously. One of the biggest things I've had to learn is that I can't fix everyone no matter how blatantly obvious the problems are for them. A soul can only fix itself. I was lucky in that I came back after Celine into Fanny with a strong foundation of unconditional love with my twin flame, Lawrence, even though we struggled too. Love was never the problem between us. Love, in my experience, has the power to heal all wounds - even the ones we can't see on the surface. I'm not totally healed from my French trauma but I am in a much better place because my following lifetime had that foundation of acceptance and love that I lacked in France.

To read about my other past life cases, go to Fanny Chamberlain and Lady Amy Robsart Dudley.