Talk:Catholicism and Freemasonry/to do/french

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[edit] French Revolution

Many French revolutionaries were Freemasons, including Voltaire,^[1] Condorcet,^[2] Mirabeau,^[3] Danton,^[4] the Duke of Orleans^[5] and Robespierre^[6]

In many parts of France the Jacobin clubs were continuances of Masonic lodges from the Ancien Regime.

The Catholic Encyclopedia alleges that the Masonic book "La Franc-Maçonnerie, écrasée" in 1746 predicted the program of the French Revolution^[7] and claims to quote documents of the Grand Orient of France where Freemasonry claims credit for the French Revolution.^[8] However the New Catholic Encyclopedia of 1967 says that modern historians see Freemasonry's role in the French Revolution is exaggerated.^[9]