First-ever book accusing of a Masonic conspiracy behind the French Revolution, written in 1791, while the latter was still in its early phases.
Jacques-François Lefranc was born in Vire, France, in 1739. He was superior of the Eudist seminary at Caen. Having refused to swear an oath to the revolutionary constitution, in 1791 he was targeted by the authorities, forced to hand over control of the seminary, expelled, and finally imprisoned at Carmes in Paris. He was assassinated along with 180 clerics on 2 September 1792. His writings put forth the first accusations of a Masonic conspiracy behind the French Revolution.
