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Work written by the French Jesuit Augustin Barruel (1741-1820), published in French between 1797 and 1798 and translated into English the following year. The Mémoires, since their publication, met with enormous success and were commented on by all the most important literary and political magazines of the time.
CONTENTS
Barruel set himself the goal of demonstrating, through extensive documentation based on irrefutable evidence, that the French Revolution had been the result of a conspiracy prepared down to the smallest detail by the Philosophes and by Freemasonry. The system created by Freemasonry would later be inherited by the Jacobins, who would take it to its extreme consequences. The Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du Jacobinisme present the Revolution as the culmination of a long history of subversion. Barruel was not the first to advance this hypothesis, but he was the first to base it on a wide-ranging historical reconstruction, accompanied by an unprecedented body of evidence. Here the first three volumes of four. The first volume examines the anti-Christian conspiracy that began in 1728, the year in which, according to Barruel, Voltaire "consecrated his life to the annihilation of Christianity. Barruel examined the writings of the main Enlightenment authors and noted the close links between the philosophy of the Enlightenment and the anti-Christian persecutions of the revolutionary period. He found that the Philosophes had devised a new language and way of thinking to use in their ideological battle against Christianity and the social order. Using terms of generic and vague meaning, the group was managed to pass off ruinous ideas as "sublime". The second volume focuses on the anti-monarchist conspiracy led by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Baron de Montesquieu. These conspirators aimed to destroy legitimate monarchies under the pretext of bringing "independence and freedom ". The third volume of the Mémoires deals with the antisocial conspiracy, the real goal of the Freemasons and the Illuminati. The Phil osophes with their offensive against the throne and the altar had paved the way for the conspiracy led by the secret societies.
CONDITION REPORT
In-12. pp. 202. Half leather binding with marbled corners and plates. Fillets and title embossed in gold on spine. Black and gold Ex libris label on front pastedown. Diffuse foxing, soft and porous paper, author's notes in the margins.
FULL TITLE & AUTHORS
Abregé des Mémoires pour servir a l'Histoire du Jacobinisme
In Londres, chez Ph. Le Boussonier, et Comp. and found in Hamburg and Brunswick, chez P.F. Faucheet Companies, 1799
Augustine Barruel 67056333
