Le Tombeau de Jacques Molai : ou histoire secrète et abrégée des initiés, anciens et modernes, des templiers franc-maçons, illuminés, etc. et Recherches sur leur influence dans la Révolution française ; suivie de la Clef des Loges

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the executions of the Templars, the history of the massacres of Sicily, of Merindol, of Saint Bartholomew's Day; those of Ireland, of Piedmont, of the Cévennes, of the New World. I have shuddered while counting twenty-three million one hundred and eighty thousand men coldly slaughtered, FOR OPINIONS! But I have seen, in each of these outrages, only a single cause, and our misfortunes seem produced by all those which, in the centuries of barbarism, have caused human blood to flow.

Interrogate separately a historian, a calculator, a philosopher,