Live auction - fjt_1017873 - FREEMASONRY LES ADMIRATEURS DE L’UNIVERS 1836
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Live starting : Type : LES ADMIRATEURS DE L’UNIVERS
Date: 1836
Metal : silver
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,48 g.
Edge : Lisse + lampe
Puncheon : Lampe (1832 - 1841)
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène noircie, légèrement irisée, avec une partie de son brillant de frappe
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : . ADMIRATEURS / DE L’ UNIVERS.
Obverse description : Au centre, un globe.
Reverse
Reverse legend : * TOLERANCE ET PROGRES * 5836.
Reverse description : équerre et compas entrecroisés reposés sur deux rameaux d’acacia.
Commentary
Loge fondée en 1808, le titre distinctif envisagé fut d’abord Les Chevaliers de L’Univers. La loge a fait preuve d’indépendance à l’égard du Grand Orient, pour finalement s’y rallier en 1817. Cette loge compta parmi ses membres, le Duc de Berry, fils du futur Charles X et donc bien placé dans l’ordre de succession au trône. Ayant été initié en Angleterre ; pour cette raison et malgré des opinions ultraroyalistes, il portait les espoirs de bien des francs maçons. .
Founded in 1808, the distinctive title initially envisaged was Les Chevaliers de L'Univers. The lodge demonstrated independence from the Grand Orient, finally joining it in 1817. This lodge included among its members the Duke of Berry, son of the future Charles X and therefore well placed in the line of succession to the throne. Having been initiated in England; for this reason and despite ultra-royalist opinions, he carried the hopes of many Freemasons.
Founded in 1808, the distinctive title initially envisaged was Les Chevaliers de L'Univers. The lodge demonstrated independence from the Grand Orient, finally joining it in 1817. This lodge included among its members the Duke of Berry, son of the future Charles X and therefore well placed in the line of succession to the throne. Having been initiated in England; for this reason and despite ultra-royalist opinions, he carried the hopes of many Freemasons.
Historical background
FREEMASONRY
The compass and the square are very often associated in an ambivalent symbol of balance: fixity and mobility, passive and active, matter and spirit.. The compass is the tool of the Creator and of the great Architect of the Universe. The spacing of the branches of the compass obeys precise rules and varies according to the three degrees: apprentice, companion, master. The Napoleonic era, in the activity of lodges as in that of many groups, saw a flowering after the terrible years of the revolutionary period. Masonic activity, rid of its republican theories and firmly controlled by a Grand-Master appointed by the Emperor, experienced a vigor in unity never found since.. It is considered that each regiment, each garrison, each city had its Lodge. The testimonies that the sumptuous tokens of the period leave us show that these lodges were rich and influential.. The symbolism is sought after, without comparison with the later eras, which were much more conventional, even bland or destitute at the beginning of the 20th century.. Freemasonry had more than a thousand lodges spread over one hundred and thirty departments and more than sixty thousand Brothers.
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