Jean-Baptiste Willermoz, un franc-maçon mystique - Nos Colonnes

Jean-Baptiste Willermoz, a Mystical Freemason

Jean-Baptiste Willermoz. A name well known to all Freemasons, and especially to the members of the Rectified Scottish Rite, of which he is the main author. Jean-Baptiste Willermoz was undoubtedly...
February 17, 2025
Le Rite Lauderdale, l’un des Rites méconnus du Droit Humain - Nos Colonnes

The Lauderdale Ritual, one of the little known rituals of Droit Humain

Have you ever heard of the Lauderdale Ritual which is use within the Droit Humain co-masonry ? For the majority of French-speaking Freemasons, Le Droit Humain works exclusively within the...
February 10, 2025
Le calendrier maçonnique - Nos Colonnes

The Masonic Calendar

All Freemasons will have noticed that Freemasonry follows a specific calendar, known as the Masonic Calendar. This calendar is mainly used for ritual purposes and to date the minutes of...
February 03, 2025
L'étrange destinée du Temple maçonnique d'Hollywood - Nos Colonnes

The strange destiny of the Hollywood Masonic Temple

Hollywood is undoubtedly a unique place, where nothing can happen like anywhere else. So it's hardly surprising that the Hollywood Masonic Temple has had a rather surprising destiny. In just...
January 27, 2025
Joseph de Maistre, un franc-maçon surprenant - Nos Colonnes

Joseph de Maistre, an unexpected Freemason

In continental Europe, and particularly in France, Freemasons are often thought to be necessarily progressive, republican, democratic, agnostic or even atheist, willingly anti-clerical and always committed to social progress. That...
January 20, 2025
Hubert Germain franc-maçon - Nos Colonnes

Hubert Germain, a Freemason

On 21 September 2021, Hubert Germain died, the last of the "Compagnons de la Libération", an order created by General de Gaulle in 1944 to honour the fighters of Free...
January 13, 2025
Hiram et le Père Noël - Nos Colonnes

Hiram and Father Christmas/Santa Claus

Do you believe in Father Christma/Santa Claus? And do you believe in Hiram? Strange questions at first glance, but not so much on closer inspection. Hiram and Father Christmas/Santa Claus...
December 23, 2024
Pierre Brossolette franc-maçon - Nos Colonnes

Pierre Brossolette, a freemason

Somewhat overshadowed by the figure of Jean Moulin at the time of the Liberation in 1945, Pierre Brossolette remains one of the main figures of the French Resistance during the...
December 16, 2024
Victor Schoelcher et l’abolition de l’esclavage - Nos Colonnes

Victor Schoelcher and the Abolition of Slavery

Perhaps little known outside France, Victor Schoelcher was a Freemason who actively campaigned for the abolition of slavery. The abolition of slavery in France was a long story, spanning 1315,...
December 09, 2024
L’Acacia en franc-maçonnerie - Nos Colonnes

Acacia in Freemasonry

In addition to the working tools borrowed from operative masons' tradition, reminiscences of the Temple of Solomon, such as the B and J columns, and the Pythagorean emblem of the...
November 25, 2024
Les Cinq Cartouches du grade de Compagnon - Nos Colonnes

The Five Cartouches of the Fellowcraft Degree

The Five Cartouches that appear at the reception ceremony of the Fellowcraft degree will not necessarily appeal to Anglo-Saxon or Nordic Freemasons, but it is a commonplace for a large...
November 18, 2024
L’Ordre de St Jean de Jérusalem et la franc-maçonnerie - Nos Colonnes

The Order of Saint John of Jerusalem and Freemasonry

The symbolism of the Templar Order is clearly present in Freemasonry, particularly in the Strict Templar Observance, the Rectified Scottish Rite, the Swedish Rite and, of course, in the higher...
November 11, 2024