Secret Societies Illuminati Freemasons And The French Revolution

1 i BY THE SAME AUTHOR ANNA VAN SCHURMAN ARTIST: SCHOLAR I SAINT MAXIMS OF A QUEEN ETC. ETC.;CRET SOCIETIES D THE FRENCH REVOLUTION JETHER WITH SOME KINDRED STUDIES BY UNA BIRCH LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY: MCMXI THE BALLANTVNS TRESS TAVISTOCK STREET COVENT GARDEN LONDON I have to thank the proprietors and editors of the Edinburgh Review and The Nineteenth Century and After for permission to republish these essays UNA BIRCH ' CONTENTS PAGE SECRET SOCIETIES AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 3 THE COMTE DE SAINT-GERMAIN 65 RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION in MADAME DE STAEL AND -NAPOLEON: A STUDY IN IDEALS 181 BIBLIOGRAPHY 247 INDEX 253 "The appalling thing in the French…