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Rosicrucians, Freemasons & Secret Societies
Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism
- First published1797
- TraditionSecret Societies
- Shelf93 books
The French Jesuit's multi-volume argument that the Revolution was the work of a coordinated plot by philosophes, Freemasons and Illuminati. Widely translated and enormously influential, Barruel's work is the template for later secret-society conspiracy theories, and reading it alongside modern historians shows how the myth was built.








