Frédéric Desmons
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Frédéric Desmons (1832 in Brignon, Gard – 1910) was a French Calvinist pastor and freemason who persuaded the Grand Orient de France in a vote to remove the term of the Great Architect of the Universe from their Constitution.[1] This precipitated a split with the United Grand Lodge of England and the birth of liberal or Latin Freemasonry.[2]
He studied in Nîmes and then went on to study theology in Geneva, the stronghold of Calvinism.[3]
Upon his death, Frédéric Desmons was buried in the cemetery at Saint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès, Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.[4]
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- Members of the 2nd Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
- Members of the 3rd Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
- Members of the 4th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
- Members of the 5th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
- Members of the 6th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
- Members of Parliament for Gard
- French senators of the Third Republic
- Senators of Gard
- French Freemasons
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