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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Another will believe he explains everything by telling you the history of human prejudices and passions. According to him, the pride of the nobility, the avarice of the parliaments, the fanaticism of the priests, the team spirit original: "esprit de corps", the love of novelty, and ambition are the only elements of our troubles. This person will imagine (perhaps with foundation) recognizing in the popular excesses the vengeance of the Protestants proscribed by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. A fourth, a partisan of fatalism, will see no other driving cause than chance. If he is superstitious,