La guerre des sexes et l'Amour maçon dans la poésie.

• Autores: Jacques Brengues
• Localización: La franc-maçonnerie: Dix-Hutiéme siécle 1987, 1987, ISBN 2130414532, págs. 105-118
• Idioma: francés
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  • The establishment of single-sex speculative Freemasonry in France displeased the salons, which were controlled by women. As women were thought to be incapable of keeping secrets, they were at first excluded from the lodges. The result was a sex war full of insults, slander, spying and treason, which led finally to the creation of an original institution in the shape of Adoptive lodges. Masonic poetry contributed to the reconciliation of the warring sexes by its preciosity and its sensible arguments. It created the public image of Masonry, first seen as an organisation devoted to pleasure-seeking and then finally respected as the Temple of Virtue.