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>The Duke of Richmond established English Lodges in Paris and at his country estate at Aubigny which were used to positive diplomatic effect. And other lodges in Paris also adopted English mores including Saint-Thomas du Louis d’Argent, Bussy-Aumont, and Villeroy-Coustos
>Established in around 1727 with an English charter granted in 1732, Louis d’Argent’s members were a combination of French aristocrats and reformist intellectuals, including Judge Davy de la Fautrière, Count Chauvelin, Jacques Pernetti and Jean Gresset, interested in Enlightenment ideas and Newtonian science. Lodge Bussy-Aumont, established some years later in 1736, was a similar aggregation of Enlightenment intellectuals and aristocrats, many of whom were affiliated with the military. The Master of the Lodge was an English painter, Louis Collins, with a membership that included the Duc d’Aumont (Louis XV’s First Gentleman of the Bedchamber), Abbé Le Camus (of the King’s Guards), and the Marquis de Calviere, who later founded lodges in Avignon and Languedoc. The lodges worked English Masonic ritual (albeit in French), and provided a forum for scientific and other lectures similar to those given in English lodges
>The initiation ceremony practiced in French Lodges was the subject of an exposure in the January 1738 edition of The Gentleman’s Magazine:
>The Gentleman’s Magazine, Vol. 8 (1738) p. 54
>The Gentleman’s Magazine, Vol. 8 (1738) p. 55.
>With the election of officers and by-laws enacted on majority vote, a radical concept in Europe, the Lodges set a modest challenge to the monarch-centred institutions that characterised Louis XV’s France
>The Duke of Richmond established English Lodges in Paris and at his country estate at Aubigny which were used to positive diplomatic effect. And other lodges in Paris also adopted English mores including Saint-Thomas du Louis d’Argent, Bussy-Aumont, and Villeroy-Coustos
>Established in around 1727 with an English charter granted in 1732, Louis d’Argent’s members were a combination of French aristocrats and reformist intellectuals, including Judge Davy de la Fautrière, Count Chauvelin, Jacques Pernetti and Jean Gresset, interested in Enlightenment ideas and Newtonian science. Lodge Bussy-Aumont, established some years later in 1736, was a similar aggregation of Enlightenment intellectuals and aristocrats, many of whom were affiliated with the military. The Master of the Lodge was an English painter, Louis Collins, with a membership that included the Duc d’Aumont (Louis XV’s First Gentleman of the Bedchamber), Abbé Le Camus (of the King’s Guards), and the Marquis de Calviere, who later founded lodges in Avignon and Languedoc. The lodges worked English Masonic ritual (albeit in French), and provided a forum for scientific and other lectures similar to those given in English lodges
>The initiation ceremony practiced in French Lodges was the subject of an exposure in the January 1738 edition of The Gentleman’s Magazine:
>The Gentleman’s Magazine, Vol. 8 (1738) p. 54
>The Gentleman’s Magazine, Vol. 8 (1738) p. 55.
>With the election of officers and by-laws enacted on majority vote, a radical concept in Europe, the Lodges set a modest challenge to the monarch-centred institutions that characterised Louis XV’s France
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