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PREFACE

for in The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry, Vol. II., a picture of the real Count is appended to a description of the adventurer.

  1. Biographic Michaud, article on Saint-Germain.
  1. Souvenirs de la Marquise de Créquy, III. 65. Francois Bournand (Histoire de la Franc-Maçonnerie, p. 106) confirms this story: "The man who called himself the Comte de Saint-Germain was in reality only the son of an Alsatian Jew named Wolf."
  1. Nouvelle Biographie Générale, article on Saint-Germain.
  1. Frederick Bülau, Geheime Geschichten und ràthselhafte Menschen, I. 311 (1850); Eckert, La Franc-Maçonnene dans sa véritable signification, II. 80, quoting Lening's Encyclopédie des Franc-Mafons.
  1. Lecouteulx de Canteleu, op. cit., pp. 171, 172.
  1. Clavel, Histoire pittoresque, p. 175.
  1. Ibid., p. 175.
  1. Figuier, Histoire du Merveilleux,
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