LARUDAN (Abbot) - Lot 204

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LARUDAN (Abbot) - Lot 204
LARUDAN (Abbot) The Crushed Freemasons, continuation of the Book entitled the Order of Freemasons Betrayed. Amsterdam, se, 1774. In-12 : XXIX, (1), 383pp ; allegorical frontispiece and 5 folding plates out of text. Red long-grain chagrined paper boards 19th century à la Bradel, smooth spine decorated, gilt roulette framing the boards, corners blunted, yellow edges. The Freemasons having sworn not to reveal the secrets entrusted to them will refuse to print their rituals and the first works that will appear will take the pretext of "disclosure". The best known are: "The Order of Freemasons betrayed and the secret of the mops revealed" of Abbot Perau in 1745 and "The Freemasons crushed" of Abbot Larudan in 1747 which were reissued many times. Supposedly a continuation, and rarer, of the work of the abbot Pérau, it is in fact the work of the abbot Larudan, who according to the Dictecteur de la F.M. de Ligou would be the pseudonym of the abbot Ch. H. Arnauld de Pomponne. Caillet considers this interesting work as an apologetic of Masonry, an opinion that is not shared by Dorbon, who thinks that the revelations of the author are made to allow readers to enter fraudulently in the Lodges without being initiated" (Caillet 8510; Dorbon 2493). Violent attack on Freemasonry. Provenance: Ex-libris printed Commander Ph. Jullien in Nimes.
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