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and the ^ iixvEurope ; : ; - /^ " Thus tbeyeiy ancient sp ^ foil and ^ chiyilric existence , Hketh were ^ laoble principles of chivMiy ^
but there isyin its nat which has carried it throu ^ by representatives ^ the existence of m t ^ se days d ^ tilled with t ^ t 6 : ^
e ^ iial purity of nor is at possible to impugn estim ^ oii , ^ the ^ same time ^ shaMng to its centre the whole venerable fabjip of Knightly- honour *" .
ilasterBern of the Order b ^ death in 1840 ; anci that , at that d ^ iroubled period , and wa
Oiate of the Duke de Cosse Brissac . The ^ mllowing are his words , delivered at a public Chapter of the Knights , held at Paris in the year 1837 , as printed in the " Ordre des Chevaliers du Temple , Bruxelles , 1 ^ Grand Lodge of Scotland \— Jamais la succession des Grand-Maitres ne jfttt interrompue , et M . de Brissac , vertueux et fidele comme Molay , fit comme ce dernier heYos ; il usa de toute sa puissance , nornma son successeur , et , pres d ' etre assassineV lui remit la plenitude deses pouvoirs . Le Chevalier du Temple , Chevillon , remit les titres et pouvoirs , dans ces temps re ' volutionnaires , ktrois chevaliers , Ledru , De Saintot , et Depourchant , qui s ' adjoignirent M . Eabre " - Palaprat . C ' est ainsi qui , par diverges circonstances , ce dernier s'est trouve' & la tMe de 1 'Ordre . Bientot et malgre les representations aussi respectueuses qu ' amicales de plusieurs chevaliers et de moi-mdme , le syst ^ me antique de rOrdre
changea de nature . " The duke goes on to complain of the monstrous innovations on the rule of St . Bernard , the Charter of transmission , and the Statutes of 1705 , introduced by the Grand Master , & c . ; but the work we have quoted contains a further address from the Count de Chabrillan in 1838 , giving precisely the same account of the continuation of the Order . Glavel admits that Bernard Raymund reproduced it under the garb of Masonry in 1805 , in a new Lodge called the " Chevaliers de la Croix , " which was immediately recruited from another of "
personne l s de haut rang , telles que freres de Choiseul , de Chabrillan , de Vergennes , de Dillon , de Coigny , de Montesquiou , de Narbonne , de Bethune , de Montmorency , de la Tour du Pin , d'Aligre , de Labourdonnaye , de Sennones , de Crussol , de JSTanteuil , de Plahaut , " < fcc . & cv , many of whom , like the Duke de Choiseul , must have been formerly associating with the Duke de Cosse" Brissac , the
recently murdered Grand Master . At a later date , the same authority states that Carnot , Ney , Napoleon , de Montebello , Isambert , Chatelain , Montalivet , & c ., were not only members of the Ordre du Temple , but remonstrating seriously with the Grand Master on its affairs ; and the inquiry naturally arises , what could have attracted these great men , and almost all the ancient noblesse resident at the capital , to the standard of JBernard Raymund , then an humble physician in Paris , if he himself was an impostor , and his Order a delusion ?
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and the ^ iixvEurope ; : ; - /^ " Thus tbeyeiy ancient sp ^ foil and ^ chiyilric existence , Hketh were ^ laoble principles of chivMiy ^
but there isyin its nat which has carried it throu ^ by representatives ^ the existence of m t ^ se days d ^ tilled with t ^ t 6 : ^
e ^ iial purity of nor is at possible to impugn estim ^ oii , ^ the ^ same time ^ shaMng to its centre the whole venerable fabjip of Knightly- honour *" .
ilasterBern of the Order b ^ death in 1840 ; anci that , at that d ^ iroubled period , and wa
Oiate of the Duke de Cosse Brissac . The ^ mllowing are his words , delivered at a public Chapter of the Knights , held at Paris in the year 1837 , as printed in the " Ordre des Chevaliers du Temple , Bruxelles , 1 ^ Grand Lodge of Scotland \— Jamais la succession des Grand-Maitres ne jfttt interrompue , et M . de Brissac , vertueux et fidele comme Molay , fit comme ce dernier heYos ; il usa de toute sa puissance , nornma son successeur , et , pres d ' etre assassineV lui remit la plenitude deses pouvoirs . Le Chevalier du Temple , Chevillon , remit les titres et pouvoirs , dans ces temps re ' volutionnaires , ktrois chevaliers , Ledru , De Saintot , et Depourchant , qui s ' adjoignirent M . Eabre " - Palaprat . C ' est ainsi qui , par diverges circonstances , ce dernier s'est trouve' & la tMe de 1 'Ordre . Bientot et malgre les representations aussi respectueuses qu ' amicales de plusieurs chevaliers et de moi-mdme , le syst ^ me antique de rOrdre
changea de nature . " The duke goes on to complain of the monstrous innovations on the rule of St . Bernard , the Charter of transmission , and the Statutes of 1705 , introduced by the Grand Master , & c . ; but the work we have quoted contains a further address from the Count de Chabrillan in 1838 , giving precisely the same account of the continuation of the Order . Glavel admits that Bernard Raymund reproduced it under the garb of Masonry in 1805 , in a new Lodge called the " Chevaliers de la Croix , " which was immediately recruited from another of "
personne l s de haut rang , telles que freres de Choiseul , de Chabrillan , de Vergennes , de Dillon , de Coigny , de Montesquiou , de Narbonne , de Bethune , de Montmorency , de la Tour du Pin , d'Aligre , de Labourdonnaye , de Sennones , de Crussol , de JSTanteuil , de Plahaut , " < fcc . & cv , many of whom , like the Duke de Choiseul , must have been formerly associating with the Duke de Cosse" Brissac , the
recently murdered Grand Master . At a later date , the same authority states that Carnot , Ney , Napoleon , de Montebello , Isambert , Chatelain , Montalivet , & c ., were not only members of the Ordre du Temple , but remonstrating seriously with the Grand Master on its affairs ; and the inquiry naturally arises , what could have attracted these great men , and almost all the ancient noblesse resident at the capital , to the standard of JBernard Raymund , then an humble physician in Paris , if he himself was an impostor , and his Order a delusion ?