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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dogs and cats that were fighting, it was signified that towards the end of the monarchy, those who would hold the crown would be without virtue, vicious, and greedy; and the small animals denoted the common people who would slaughter one another."

Every sensible man shrugs his shoulders when reading such puerilities, or at most laughs at the wise precaution of Basine, who waits, before explaining the king's vision, until he has completely fulfilled his marital duty; every philanthropist will wish that there is no more reality in the following revelations.

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