• La Loge des Neuf Sœurs (French pronunciation: [la lɔʒ de nœf sœʁ]; The Nine Sisters), established in Paris in 1734, was a prominent French Masonic Lodge...
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    Benjamin Franklin (category Les Neuf Sœurs)
    was active as a Freemason, serving as venerable master of the lodge Les Neuf Sœurs from 1779 until 1781. In 1784, when Franz Mesmer began to publicize...
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    Voltaire (redirect from Arouet le Jeune)
    over a month before his death. On 4 April 1778, he attended la Loge des Neuf Sœurs in Paris, and became an Entered Apprentice Freemason. According to some...
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    Montgolfier brothers (category Les Neuf Sœurs)
    an improved version of the pump. Both brothers were freemasons in Les Neuf Soeurs lodge in Paris. In 1799, Etienne de Montgolfier died on the way from...
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    John Paul Jones (category Les Neuf Sœurs)
    rebuilt and given to America by the French shipping magnate, Jacques-Donatien Le Ray. On August 14, as a vast French and Spanish invasion fleet approached...
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    Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles (category Les Neuf Sœurs)
    prestigious Parlement of Paris. Active freemason, he was a member of Les Neuf Soeurs lodge since its creation in 1776. His legal occupation did not prevent...
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    Paris. In 1776, he founded the "La Vérité" lodge and often attended Les Neuf Sœurs. Guillotin features in Andrew Miller's Costa prize-winning novel Pure...
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    French). Vol. 3. Paris: veuve Nicolas Desaint. 1771. Lalande 21185 Les Neuf Sœurs Felis (constellation) Quadrans Muralis Atlas Coelestis Officina Typographica...
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    Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (category Les Neuf Sœurs)
    portal What Is the Third Estate?, a political pamphlet written by Sieyès Les Neuf Sœurs, a Parisian Masonic lodge of which Sieyès was a member Guilhaumou 2006...
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  • Revolution, there were some 1250 Masonic Lodges in the country. The Lodge Les Neuf Sœurs was a prominent lodge attached to the Grand Orient de France that was...
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    Antoine Court de Gébelin (category Les Neuf Sœurs)
    was initiated into Freemasonry at the lodge Les Amis Réunis, in 1771, and moved on to the lodge Les Neuf Sœurs where he welcomed Benjamin Franklin as a lodge-brother...
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  • the lodge Les Neuf Sœurs in Paris. Mozart and Beethoven both wrote variations on themes by Dezède. 1772: Julie (28 September) ; 1777: Les Trois Fermiers ;...
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    Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (category Les Neuf Sœurs)
    naturelles (1816-1830). He was also a member of the Masonic Lodge, Les Neuf Sœurs. Jussieu's system of plant classification, based on the relative value...
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    Jean-Antoine Houdon (category Les Neuf Sœurs)
    and one for Catherine the Great. In 1778, he joined the masonic lodge Les Neuf Sœurs, where he later met Benjamin Franklin, and John Paul Jones. For Salon...
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    Saint-Georges was eligible to join the Grand Orient de France from 1773 or Les Neuf Sœurs from 1776. Under the teaching of Gluck, Marie Antoinette developed into...
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    Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (category Les Neuf Sœurs)
    l'Escaut, réclamée par l'Empereur; sur les causes & sur les conséquences probables de cette réclamation 1785 - Lettre à M. Le Couteulx de la Noraye, sur la Banque...
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    Institut de France (category Les Neuf Sœurs)
    List of museums in Paris List of honorary societies "L'Institut de France et le mécénat". Institut de France. Archived from the original on 9 November 2019...
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    unknown Le petit mathématicien or The young mathematician, date unknown The hermit or The distributor of rosaries, date unknown Les Neuf Sœurs The Kings'...
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    1781 to the Académie française. He was a member of the Masonic lodge Les Neuf Sœurs. In 1784, through the influence of Calonne, he became secretary to the...
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    Social, then that of Les Neuf Sœurs (1778–1785), where he succeeded Benjamin Franklin as vénérable in 1781. A Mémoire justificatif pour le marquis de la Salle...
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    Service Street lighting President, Pennsylvania Abolition Society Master, Les Neuf Sœurs Gravesite Writings The Papers of Benjamin Franklin Founders Online Silence...
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    Bernard Germain de Lacépède (category Les Neuf Sœurs)
    needed] Lacépède was initiated into freemasonry at 22 years old at Les Neuf Sœurs lodge in Paris, by Jérôme Lalande the worshipfull master himself, who...
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    Service Street lighting President, Pennsylvania Abolition Society Master, Les Neuf Sœurs Gravesite Writings The Papers of Benjamin Franklin Founders Online Silence...
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    Service Street lighting President, Pennsylvania Abolition Society Master, Les Neuf Sœurs Gravesite Writings The Papers of Benjamin Franklin Founders Online Silence...
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    Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis (category Les Neuf Sœurs)
    who called his work "excellent". He was a member of the masonic lodge Les Neuf Sœurs from 1778.[citation needed] In 1786, Cabanis was elected an international...
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    Gilbert Romme (category Les Neuf Sœurs)
    1788 and entered political life. He was a member of the Masonic lodge, Les Neuf Sœurs. Elected on 10 September 1791 to the Legislative Assembly, Romme aligned...
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    with some of these colleagues, he was a member of the cultural society Les Neuf Sœurs. In 1806, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia...
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    Service Street lighting President, Pennsylvania Abolition Society Master, Les Neuf Sœurs Gravesite Writings The Papers of Benjamin Franklin Founders Online Silence...
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    Jacques Delille (category Les Neuf Sœurs)
    Augustan Studies, pp.40-42 L’acier qui fait tomber les sapins et les chênes, Le fer qui de Cérès fertilise les plaines, Poésies fugitives, p.115 Hippolyte Lucas...
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    century. A famous Masonic lodge in pre-Revolutionary Paris was called Les Neuf Soeurs ('The Nine Sisters', that is, the Nine Muses); Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin...
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