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Friendship, an acquired relationship primarily based on choice rather than birth, lay at the heart of Enlightenment preoccupations with sociability and the formation of the private sphere. In Brotherly Love, Kenneth Loiselle argues that Freemasonry is an ideal arena in which to explore the changing nature of male friendship in Enlightenment France. Freemasonry was the largest and most diverse voluntary organization in the decades before the French Revolution. At least fifty thousand Frenchmen joined lodges, the memberships of which ranged across the social spectrum from skilled artisans to the highest ranks of the nobility. Loiselle argues that men were attracted to Freemasonry because it enabled them to cultivate enduring friendships that were egalitarian and grounded in emotion.Drawing on scores of archives, including private letters, rituals, the minutes of lodge meetings, and the speeches of many Freemasons, Loiselle reveals the thought processes of the visionaries who founded this movement, the ways in which its members maintained friendships both within and beyond the lodge, and the seemingly paradoxical place women occupied within this friendship community. Masonic friendship endured into the tumultuous revolutionary era, although the revolutionary leadership suppressed most of the lodges by 1794. Loiselle not only examines the place of friendship in eighteenth-century society and culture but also contributes to the history of emotions and masculinity, and the essential debate over the relationship between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.

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Cornell University Press

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9780801454875

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English

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7 Mo

cBROTHERLY LOVE

BROTHERLY LOVE

F RE E MASONRY AND MAL E F RI E NDSHI P I N E NL I GHT E NME NT F RANCE

K e n n e t h Lo i s e l l e

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Ithaca and London

Jacket illustration: Gourde aux deux frères (faïence de Nevers, eighteenth century). Photo courtesy of the Grand Orient de France.

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the pub-lisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850.

First published 2014 by Cornell University Press Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Loiselle, Kenneth, 1975– author. Brotherly love : freemasonry and male friendship in Enlightenment France / Kenneth Loiselle. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8014-5243-7 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Freemasonry—France—History—18th century. 2. Male friendship—France—History—18th century. 3. Enlightenment—France. 4. France—Social life and customs—18th century. I. Title.

HS603.L65 2014 366'.1094409033—dc23

2014005279

Cornell University Press strives to use environmentally responsible suppliers and materials to the fullest extent possible in the publishing of its books. Such materials include vegetable-based, low-VOC inks and acid-free papers that are recycled, totally chlorine-free, or partly composed of nonwood ﬁbers. For further information, visit our website at www.cornellpress.cornell.edu.

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10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

To Gisela, Sarah, and Nathaniel, with much love

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Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations

ix xiii

Introduction 1 1. The Masonic Utopia of Friendship 18 2. Friendship in Ritual 47 3. Confronting the Specter of Sodomy 81 4. “New but True Friends”: The Friendship Network of Philippe-Valentin Bertin du Rocheret 110 5. Friendship in the Age of Sensibility 156 6. Friendship under Fire: Freemasonry in the French Revolution 201 Conclusion 244

Index

257

c A c k n o w l e d g m e nt s

Many institutions and individuals helped me complete this book. The Yale Center for International and Area Studies and the Georges Lurcy Trust sup-ported my initial research. A circle of scholars made my graduate work both a social and an intellectual experience, notably Jennifer Boittin, Rachel Chrastil, Ulrike Decoene, Brooke Donaldson, Catherine Dunlop, Katherine Foshko, Jens-Uwe Guettel, Eva Guggenomos, Sylvaine Guyot, Charles Keith, Charles Lansing, Jake Lundberg, Karen Marrero, John Monroe, Bob Morrissey, George Trumbull, and Helen Veit, as well as the members of the Eliezer Society, notably Rabbi Shmully Hecht. The idea of friendship as an object of historical inquiry ﬁrst occurred to me in a seminar with Keith Wrightson, whose ability to foster creative pathways into early modern Eu-ropean social life still inspires. Thomas Kavanagh and Jay Winter also offered helpful feedback at various stages. The untimely passing of Frank Turner robbed the scholarly community of a great mentor for graduate students; his patience and thoughtfulness will be terribly missed. Outside Yale, a number of historians helped me immeasurably, notably David Bell, who encouragedmetoreshapethisprojectatacriticaljuncture.OtherswhoofferedvaluablesuggestionsandcriticismsincludeRonaldAsch,StevenAuerbach,Yves-MarieBercé,PeterBurke,PeterR.Campbell,RogerChart-ier, Malcolm Crook, Robert Darnton, Maurice Daumas, Natalie Zemon Davis, Jonathan Dewald, Michel Figeac, Alan Forrest, Katsumi Fukasawa, John Garrigus, David Garrioch, Matthieu Glaumaud-Carbonnier, Dena Goodman, Daniel Gordon, Bernard Hann, Julie Hardwick, Olivia Harman, Colin Jones, Steven Kaplan, the late Sharon Kettering, Wim Klooster, Chris-tian Kühner, Marisa Linton, Darrin McMahon, Jean-Marie Mercier, Jeffrey Merrick, Paul Monod, Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, Jeremy Popkin, the late Charles Porset, Christophe Portalez, Céline Sala, Eric Saunier, James Smith-Allen, Naomi Tadmor, Dale Van Kley, Charlotta Wolff, Kent Wright, and Thierry Zarcone. Sylvie Bourrel, Pierre Mollier, and the many other archi-vists in Paris and the provinces, too numerous to be mentioned here, are warmly thanked for their patient guidance. In France, I had the pleasure of

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