Thus were the stupid Bavarians (as the French were once pleased to call them) their instructors in the art of overturning the world. The French were indeed the first who put it in practice. These committees arose from the Illuminati in Bavaria, who had by no means given over working; and these committees produced the Jacobin Club. It is not a frivolous remark, that the Masonic phrase of the persons who wish to address the Brethren, (F. S. je demande la parole, which the F. S. reports to the V. G. M. and which he announces to the Brethren thus, "Mes freres, frere tel demande la parole, la parole lui est accordee,") is exactly copied by the Jacobin Club. There is surely no natural connection between Free Masonry and Jacobinism—but we seek the link—Illuminatism.—
The office-bearers of one of the Lodges of Philalethes in Paris were Martin , Willermooz , (who had been deputy from the Chevaliers Bienfaisants to the Willemsbad Convention) Chappe , Minet , de la Henriere , and Savatier de l'Ange . In another (the Contract Social ) the Political Committee consisted of La Fayette , Condorcet , Pethion , d'Orleans , Abbe Bartholis , d'Aiguillon , Bailly , Marq. de la Salle , Despresmenil . This particular Lodge had been founded and conducted by one De Leutre , an adventurer and cheat of the first