• 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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    Jérôme Lalande (category Les Neuf Sœurs)
    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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    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 his...
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    John Paul Jones (category Les Neuf Sœurs)
    John Paul Jones (born John Paul; July 6, 1747 – July 18, 1792) was a Scottish-born American naval officer who served in the Continental Navy during the...
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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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    Voltaire (category Les Neuf Sœurs)
    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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    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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    Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (category Les Neuf Sœurs)
    Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau (French: [miʁabo]; 9 March 1749 – 2 April 1791) was a French writer, orator, statesman and a prominent figure...
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    Gilbert Romme (category Les Neuf Sœurs)
    political life.[citation needed] He was a member of the Masonic lodge, Les Neuf Sœurs.[citation needed] Elected on 10 September 1791 to the Legislative Assembly...
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    Jacques Delille (category Les Neuf Sœurs)
    Jacques Delille (French: [dəlil]; 22 June 1738 at Aigueperse in Auvergne – 1 May 1813, in Paris) was a French poet who came to national prominence with...
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    Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (category Les Neuf Sœurs)
    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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    Jean-François Marmontel (category Les Neuf Sœurs)
    Anciens, he died at Abloville. He was a member of the Masonic lodge Les Neuf Sœurs. John Ruskin named him as one of the three people in history who were...
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    Jean-Antoine Houdon (category Les Neuf Sœurs)
    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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    Institut de France (category Les Neuf Sœurs)
    Vendôme Pont Alexandre III Pont d'Iéna Pont de Bir-Hakeim Pont des Arts Pont Neuf Port du Louvre Rive Gauche Rue Basse Rue Bonaparte Rue Charlemagne Rue d'Argenteuil...
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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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    date unknown The hermit or The distributor of rosaries, date unknown Les Neuf Sœurs The Kings' Tart The Bible Reading References Dilke 1911, p. 584. "J'ai...
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    Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis (category Les Neuf Sœurs)
    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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    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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    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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    Antoine Court de Gébelin (category Les Neuf Sœurs)
    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.[citation needed]...
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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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    two symphonies (in D major and in G major) and a flute concerto. Les Neuf Sœurs Ferris, George T. (2007). Great Italian and French Composers. Dodo Press...
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    ascendant and Fontanes met with small appreciation. Poetry portal Les Neuf Sœurs  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication...
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    Thétis et de Pélée, poème de Catulle, traduit en vers français, 1812 Les Neuf Sœurs Paolo Grossi, Pierre-Louis Ginguené, historien de la littérature italienne...
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    Street lighting President, Pennsylvania Abolition Society Master, Les Neuf Sœurs Gravesite Writings The Papers of Benjamin Franklin Founders Online Silence...
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    Jean-Nicolas Démeunier (category Les Neuf Sœurs)
    Jean-Nicolas Démeunier (sometimes Desmeuniers) (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ nikɔla demønje]; 15 March 1751 – 2 February 1814) was a French author and politician...
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  • historian and philosopher. Initiated in 1778 by WM Ben Franklin, Loge des Neuf Sœurs, Paris. He received only the First Degree, dying less than two months...
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    Street lighting President, Pennsylvania Abolition Society Master, Les Neuf Sœurs Gravesite Writings The Papers of Benjamin Franklin Founders Online Silence...
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    Street lighting President, Pennsylvania Abolition Society Master, Les Neuf Sœurs Gravesite Writings The Papers of Benjamin Franklin Founders Online Silence...
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