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- Title
Treasures from the Musée de la franc-maçonnerie The mysteries of the Les Trois Frères Lodge.
- Authors
Mollier, Pierre
- Abstract
The Musée de la franc-maçonnerie in Paris has a copy of the very rare certificate from a Lodge Les Trois Frères (The three brethren) in Versailles. The iconography of the certificate is unambiguous in how it is to be understood. At the top of the print, we see the portraits of three brothers, under whose protection the Lodge is placed: Louis Auguste de France, the newly crowned Louis XVI; Louis Stanislas Xavier de France, Count of Provence and the future Louis XVIII; and Charles Philippe de France, Count of Artois, who will become Charles X a half-century later. The first question we must ask is: Were these three brothers "Brethren?". In fact only the Count of Artois and future Charles X seems to have been a Mason for a time in his youth and to have had real links with The Three Brethren Lodge.
- Subjects
PARIS (France); RELIGIOUS idols
- Publication
Ritual, Secrecy & Civil Society, 2022, Vol 9, Issue 1, p53
- ISSN
2334-0797
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18278/rscs.9.1.4