He is a specialist in the
history of Freemasonry, covering both social and political fields, as well as philosophical and spiritual topics. He has researched the links between Freemasonry and the power in France under
Napoleon (1800–1815) and during the
Third Republic (1870–1940). As an expert in the history of
Masonic rites, he has also researched the various aspects of the symbolic imagery (guild marks, heraldry, emblems).
Editor-in-chief of the symbolic and Masonic review, Renaissance Traditionnelle, of the on-line Journal
Ritual, Secrecy, and Civil Society he co-directs the Chroniques d’Histoire Maçonnique. He also contributes to several other reviews, including Politica Hermetica and La Phalère. Furthermore, he is an expert on and biographer of French painter
François-Jean Garneray (1755–1837), one of
Jacques-Louis David’s first students.
He was named officer in the
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.
Books
Le Régulateur du Maçon (1785-«1801»), la fixation des grades symboliques du Rite Français : histoire et documents, éditions « A l’Orient », Paris, 2004, 300 pp.
La Chevalerie Maçonnique : Franc-maçonnerie, imaginaire chevaleresque et légende templière au siècle des Lumières, Dervy, Collection Renaissance Traditionnelle, Paris, 2005, 230. pp.
L’Etat-major maçonnique de Napoléon, dictionnaire biographique des dirigeants du Grand Orient de France sous le Premier Empire, avec Pierre-François Pinaud, préface de
Charles Napoléon, Éditions « A l’Orient », Orléans, 2009, 312 pp.
Rebuilding the Sanctuaries of Memphis: Egypt in Masonic Iconography and Architecture, with John Hamill, in Imhotep Today: Egyptianizing Architecture, UCL Press, Londres, 2003, pp. 207–220.
Neo-Templar Traditions, article in Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism, edited by Wouter J. Hanegraaf, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, Boston, 2005, T. II, pp. 849–853.
Chrétien-Guillaume Riebesthal: From the Religions of the Revolution to Paramasonic Ceremonies,, in Ritual, Secrecy, and Civil Society, Volume 1, Issue , Spring 2013, Policy Studies Organization, p. 46-50.
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The Masonic Degree of Rose-Croix and Christianity: The Complex Links between Religion and Freemasonry during the Enlightenment, in Ritual, Secrecy, and Civil Society, Volume 1, Issue 2, Winter 2013, Policy Studies Organization, p. 14-24.
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