have read your post, it's weird we have had the same thought at the same time :D ! Once I read (I don't remember the source, but it was reliable enough, I believe) an article about French Freemasonry during the French Revolution (making lots of allusions but not details, like always). It seems that the Duke of Orleans was one of the bosses, and all the people he paid (Camille Desmoulins & Danton included) were masons. But it would be very likely if also Robespierre, Saint-Just and many of the Conventionals were masons or at least in connection with any of its lodges (although in opposition to the Duke of Orleans, maybe, but we don't have elements enough to draw out the inner logic into it). Mazzucchelli, the author of the Italian biography about Saint-Just, makes some remarkable observations about the famous Letter to Daubigny and he claims Saint-Just entered Freemasonry when he studied in Reims...
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Re: Saint-Just...Virgo?
Date: 2008-09-10 09:07 pm (UTC)Once I read (I don't remember the source, but it was reliable enough, I believe) an article about French Freemasonry during the French Revolution (making lots of allusions but not details, like always). It seems that the Duke of Orleans was one of the bosses, and all the people he paid (Camille Desmoulins & Danton included) were masons. But it would be very likely if also Robespierre, Saint-Just and many of the Conventionals were masons or at least in connection with any of its lodges (although in opposition to the Duke of Orleans, maybe, but we don't have elements enough to draw out the inner logic into it). Mazzucchelli, the author of the Italian biography about Saint-Just, makes some remarkable observations about the famous Letter to Daubigny and he claims Saint-Just entered Freemasonry when he studied in Reims...