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The French National Lodge (LNF)
The French National Lodge is a small regular French Grand Lodge which aim is to promote the traditional teaching of operative and speculative Masonry. Its members have very fraternal relations with other Grand Lodges.
History of the French National Lodge (From Antoine P:.)
The French National Lodge (LNF) was officially born on April 26, 1968, from the decision of three lodges having regular charters of the French National Grand Lodge (Opera), to federate. These three Lodges were Jean Theophilus Desaguliers lodge, James Anderson lodge and la Fidélité Lodge1 .
The first of these lodges, founded in Paris using the Rectified Scottish Rite, worked according to the Restored Modern French Rite (later called Traditional French Rite), the second in Lille, was incorporated to Modern French Rite, and the third, also in Paris, practiced the English Emulation Rite. They became, in that order, the first three Lodges on the board of the Federation.
Brothers who took the decision to found the French National Lodge, under the leadership of Brother René Guilly also known as René Desaguliers (1921-1992), one of the greatest scholars of French Masonry, have done so because their traditional rigor needs and their desire to return to the… Continue reading
The Grand Lodge of the French Masonic Alliance (GL-AMF)
The new and emerging history of the Grand Lodge of the Masonic French Alliance was substantively immersed with that of the older French National Grand Lodge (GLNF) until 2012.
History of the French National Grand Lodge
The French National Grand Lodge is itself a relatively recent Grand Lodge. It was born into light in the early twentieth-century from the desire of a group of Masons of the Grand Orient of France to restore and thence forward practice the Rectified Scottish Rite in France.
In 1910, Camille Savoire and Edouard de Ribaucourt brought the Rectified Scottish Rite to life with the support of the Grand Priory of Helvetia, a Swiss Masonic Body managing the higher grades of the Rectified Scottish Rite. They strengthened the “The Center of Friends Lodge,1 “, the name of a now defunct lodge which had been working the Rectified Scottish Rite until 1838.
On the 15th of March, 1911, the Grand Orient of France and the Grand Priory of Helvetia signed an agreement with the “The Center of Friends Lodge” permitting it to work the Rectified Scottish Rite under the auspices of the Grand Orient of France.
However, in 1913, the Grand Orient of France opposed… Continue reading