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

and their secret was kept. Everything is new in their history, and I shall be forgiven for tracing it back to its origin.

After the crusades, knights dedicated themselves to the defense of the Saint-Sépulchre Holy Sepulchre, and established themselves in 1118 in Jerusalem, under the name of Templars or Knights of the Militia of the Temple. King Baldwin II gave them a house situated near the church of Jerusalem, which was said to have once been the temple of Solomon. After the ruin of Jerusalem in 1186, the Templars spread throughout all the states of Europe,