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- Title
In search of Louis Guillemain de Saint-Victor...
- Authors
Mollier, Pierre
- Abstract
In 1783, Louis Guillemain de Saint-Victor was the author of the most widely diffused XVIIIth century French Masonic exposure: the Recueil précieux de la maçonnerie adonhiramite. But the author of the book remains rather mysterious. There is no name attached to the first editions, which are simply signed "by a Knight of all the Masonic Orders." The 1789 edition has inscribed on its cover: "By Louis Guillemain, de Saint-Victor, Knight of all the Masonic Orders." All of the bibliographies therefore attribute it to a Louis Guillemain de Saint-Victor. The problem is that it is impossible to identify any Guillemain de Saint-Victor in the usual eighteenth-century sources. So who might be this mysterious Louis Guillemain de Saint-Victor? May be this pseudonym hides an amazing character called Jean-Pierre Blanchard, one of the first aeronaut aside the Montgolfier.
- Subjects
BOOKS; AUTHORS; AERONAUTICS
- Publication
Ritual, Secrecy & Civil Society, 2022, Vol 9, Issue 1, p47
- ISSN
2334-0797
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18278/rscs.9.1.3