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Article: Freemasons and the American Revolution.
- Article from:
- The Historian
- Article date:
- January 1, 1993
- Author:
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A half-century ago, some historians connected Freemasonry with American independence because a few leaders of the Revolutionary generation - most notably Benjamin Franklin and George Washington - were Freemasons. Bernard Fay, a French historian who exposed Masons to the Nazis in occupied France during World War H, made emphatic claims for Freemasonry's importance to eighteenth-century revolutionary movements in France and the American colonies. Fay saw Freemasonry as the "main instigator of the intellectual revolution" of that age and "the spiritual father of its political revolutions." According to Fay, Freemasons engendered among "a limited but very prominent class of ...
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