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Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… period. Finding his military career unrewarding, he became politically active alongside Philippe d’Orléans and participated in the debates of his time through his writing. His epistolary Les liaisons dangereuses , which was based on … simultaneously marked the pinnacle and dissolution of the epistolary novel, the symbol of sociable exchange. People > Art and Literature People > Association Keywords Correspondence Cosmopolitanism Fiction France Freemasonry Republic of … all forms of eighteenth-century sociability. He frequented the salons of the garrison towns where he was posted as an artilleryman and was a member of the societies and clubs of the revolutionary period. He was also a Freemason . His …
Correspondence | Cosmopolitanism | Fiction | France | Freemasonry | Republic of Letters
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Robinson’s and Friday’s Island [ Nature ]
Cosmopolitanism | Deism | Enlightenment | Exploration | Freemasonry | Religion | Solitude
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Freemasonry [ Associational culture / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
… coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, Représentées d’après des figures dessinées de la main de Bernard Picart, e&c., tome quatrième, qui comprend les Anglicans, les Abstract À partir du début des années 1720, la Franc-maçonnerie moderne, dite spéculative, connaît un succès fulgurant à travers … au début du XVIII e siècle. 1 . Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob et Wijnand Mijnhardt (eds.), The Book that Changed Europe: Picart and Bernard’s Religious Ceremonies of the World (Cambridge Mass: Harvard University Press, 2010). Il s’agit ici de la …
Aristocracy | Commerce | Freemasonry | Hospitality
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Masonic brotherhood [ Rituals & Ceremonies / Associational culture ]
… Image Nicolas Perseval, ‘La Triple Union ; L'Union des Trois Ordres’, vers 1789, Reims, Musée des Beaux-Arts, inv. 868.9.1. Photo : © Christian Devleeschauwer. Abstract Au XVIII e siècle, la Franc-maçonnerie se définit comme … fraternité sa valeur cardinale, au point de se désigner comme ‘la’ Fraternité. Pour autant, elle n’émerge pas de nulle part. Née du monde des corporations et des confréries, elle s’épanouit dans un environnement sociable fait de ‘sociétés’ … it was, yet ‘tis now thought more expedient only to oblige them to that Religion in which all Men agree, leaving their particular Opinions to themselves; that is, to be good Men and true, or Men of Honour and Honesty, by whatever …
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