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Article A CENTURY OF FREEMASONRY* ← Page 6 of 15 →
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A Century Of Freemasonry*
the high grades , yet that , at the time , they were made Avith an honest feeling of reform , ancl were evidently necessary , can scarcely be doubted . That reform was irnnted , and indeed was intended by the Due D'Antin is certain , but his plans were frustrated by his death , which occurred on the 9 th of December , 1743 *
On the llthf of the same month , Due Louis de Bourbon , count of Clermont , was chosen Grand Master for life , sixteen Lodges being represented on the occasion b y their Masters . The installation took place on the 27 th of the same month , Aidien the Loge cle la Concorde Avas constituted , ancl it may be observed , that on this occasionan English brotherwho had
, , been robbed on the highway , Avas relieved with sixty louis d ' or , Avhich he subsequently returned . On the day of election , France also received its first Masonic constitution and laws . % It is little more than an adaptation of Anderson ' s Constitutions , and the last ancl twentieth article is the onl y one which need be further noticed hereancl then only with reference to Scotch
, Masonry . § The Lodges whose delegates assembled to elect the new Grand Master thus first constituted a Grand Lodge , which may thus be now considered fairl y opened in France . It assumed the title of Grand Loge Anglaise de France , \\ which it retained
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
A Century Of Freemasonry*
the high grades , yet that , at the time , they were made Avith an honest feeling of reform , ancl were evidently necessary , can scarcely be doubted . That reform was irnnted , and indeed was intended by the Due D'Antin is certain , but his plans were frustrated by his death , which occurred on the 9 th of December , 1743 *
On the llthf of the same month , Due Louis de Bourbon , count of Clermont , was chosen Grand Master for life , sixteen Lodges being represented on the occasion b y their Masters . The installation took place on the 27 th of the same month , Aidien the Loge cle la Concorde Avas constituted , ancl it may be observed , that on this occasionan English brotherwho had
, , been robbed on the highway , Avas relieved with sixty louis d ' or , Avhich he subsequently returned . On the day of election , France also received its first Masonic constitution and laws . % It is little more than an adaptation of Anderson ' s Constitutions , and the last ancl twentieth article is the onl y one which need be further noticed hereancl then only with reference to Scotch
, Masonry . § The Lodges whose delegates assembled to elect the new Grand Master thus first constituted a Grand Lodge , which may thus be now considered fairl y opened in France . It assumed the title of Grand Loge Anglaise de France , \\ which it retained