LA FRANC-MAÇONNERIE

dans

les   COLONIES  FRANÇAISES

1738 - 1960

Table   des    Matières

Table Générale des matières - Bibliographie -  Louis XV - Louis XVI - Tableau Loges -  Révolution - Napoléon/Restauration - Napoléon III - Débuts III° République - Consolidation avant 1914  - Plénitude après 1918  - Assimilation ? - Doutes après 1930 - 1940.1946 et Union Française  - 1946 Indépendances

           -  Tableau récapitulatif des loges coloniales

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Contents  

 CHAPTER ONE: The Beginnings of Freemasonry in the colonial days of Louis XV

From 1738 to 1740, the Masonic establishment in the colonies of the King of France  

From 1740 to 1763, barely begun, the growth Masonic freezes in the colonies

From 1763 to 1766, the Treaty of Paris allows the revival of Freemasonry in the colonies

From 1766 to 1774, the Masonic expected expansion slows

Characteristics of French colonial lodges in the middle of the eighteenth century

The F \ Stephen Morin, a character representative of the company's traveling eighteenth century

Chapter II: Consolidation Masonic time of Louis XVI

Stability of the colonial domain, administrative evolution

Freemasonry and its internal problems: the GODF

Navy Lodges and movement of people, ideas

Lodges in the colonies: India, Indian Ocean and Senegal

Freemasonry Caribbean reached its peak

Le Chevalier de Saint George, first admitted mulatto

 Chapter III: The crisis of the colonial system during the Revolution

The profile, in 1789, Freemasonry in the colonies

The issue of slavery and the Society of Friends of Blacks "

       The decisions of "Men of the Revolution" in colonial

       The consequences of the Revolution in the colonies of the Indian Ocean

       The consequences of the Revolution in the colonies of the Caribbean

       First diaspora FF \ "emigrants" of the French Antilles

        De Grasse-Tilly: Man of the eighteenth century, attracted by the movement and the grade

Chapter IV: The end of the first colonial assembly. Napoleon I ° - The Restoration

     Under the Empire, Colonial and conditions of Freemasonry

      Life lodges "Napoleonic" in the whole of colonies

      Santo Domingo, its independence and the second diaspora FF \ "emigrants" to Cuba and the United States

      Under the Restoration, in a hangover from the Colonies: the fragility of Freemasonry

       Roger Baron: Governor of Senegal and Vénérabled'Honneur the lodge of St. Louis .

Chapter V: Transition from first to second colonial domain

July Monarchy: the boxes of the former colonial domain

Monarchie de Juillet : les loges d'Algérie, bases du nouveau domaine colonial July Monarchy: the boxes of Algeria, bases of the new colonial domain

Seconde République et Second Empire : glissement vers le Pacifique Second Republic and Second Empire: sliding toward the Pacific

Seconde République et Second Empire : les anciennes colonies Second Republic and Second Empire's former colonies

      Le F \ Schœlcher, sa lutte pour l'abolition de l'esclavage . The F \ Schoelcher, his struggle for the abolition of slavery .  

Chapter VI: The colonial expansion in the early days of ^the Third Republic

The French colonial expansion, the beginnings of the Third Republic, has three distinct phases

     Consolidation in North Africa and Senegal

       In Indochina, the expansion of the lodges is confirmed

Freemasonry in the Orient Marine "

The F \ Jules Ferry, the inspirer of the colonial revival

F \ B razza, a prototype of a "humanist colonialism" .

Chapter VII: Consolidation of the colonial organization

       The colonial domain extends over the entire facade of North Africa

       In sub-Saharan Africa, Freemasonry emerged beyond Senegal .

       Indo-China, second pole of the device in the colonies Masonic

       Lodges scattered throughout the oceans: Indian, Pacific, Atlantic

       Concerns: to take into account the size colonial Masonic

       Eugene Etienne, one of the coordinators of the colonial movement  

Chapter VIII: Fullness colonial after the First World War

        Colonial lodges during the First Great War

        Freemasonry remains outside Africa

         Recovery after the war, colonial lodges in Africa

         The highlight: Cameroon, Syria, Lebanon, Morocco

         The boxes in the colonial structures obediential

         Extension options lodges layman terms

         The Freemasons and the colonial party

         The action of the Freemasons in their orientation  

Chapter IX: Assimilation or Association?

        A greater interest in colonial questions

          A spirit of "missionary" in the service of Western civilization humanist

          The theory of assimilation in contact with reality

          The theory of association Sarraut source of reflection in Masonic circles

          The hesitations and commitment to the principle of assimilation, despite everything

          Blaise Diagne, a champion of assimilation and integration

Chapter X: Celebration and limits of the colonial system

           1930-1931, celebration of "The French Empire"  

           The FF \ and representation of Indigenous

           The recruitment of the boxes without Indigenous

            The rise of nationalism in the colonies

            The Convent of the Grand Lodge of France in 1936: "the colonial problem to modern society"

            The F \ Viollette initiator of reforms to the dialogue between communities in the presence

Chapter XI: e of the Empire to the French Union

             1940.1945 war generates various situations in the Empire

             North Africa, the starting point of the recovery Masonic

             Gradual reopening of the boxes from 1944-1945

             Empire gave way to the French Union

             The F \ Felix Eboue, the Brazzaville Conference and the French Union of 1946  

Chapter XII: The Nationalist and Independence

              Indochina opens the chapter on decolonization

              North Africa, in turn, opened the decolonization

              The Framework Act on Independence: Africa and Madagascar

               The war in Algeria and Algerian Independence

                Pham Quynh: Freemason Francophile and nationalist

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Short bibliography and other documentary sources

Table of colonial lodges before 1789

 Colonial dressing table circa 1960