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Living the Enlightenment

Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe

by Margaret C. Jacob

A comparative history of eighteenth-century lodges in Britain, France and the Netherlands. Jacob argues that Masonic constitutions, elections and sociability made lodges early schools of civil society and constitutional government.

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