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Living the enlightenment

freemasonry and politics in eighteenth-century Europe

by Margaret C. Jacob · 1991

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This historical study of Enlightenment Freemasonry traces the origins and development of the order, from the roots of its political philosophy in 17th-century England to the French Revolution.

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