Le Tombeau de Jacques Molai : ou histoire secrète et abrégée des initiés, anciens et modernes, des templiers franc-maçons, illuminés, etc. et Recherches sur leur influence dans la Révolution française ; suivie de la Clef des Loges

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a politician; ask them what is the devastating demon that tears France apart, that exhausts the population, that corrupts morality, that overturns property, that ruins the public treasury; ask them also what is the creative genius that familiarizes the people with the ideas of sound philosophy, that removes their prejudices and makes them adopt wise institutions; ask them to unravel this chaos, this astonishing mixture of virtues and crimes, of courage and cowardice, of genius and stupidity; they will all answer you differently.