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Bricaud’s chronology is valuable as an account written by an office-holder, naming charters, lodges and organisational changes. Its account of succession represents the body he led; it should be compared with records from other branches when studying disputes over authority. | Bricaud’s chronology is valuable as an account written by an office-holder, naming charters, lodges and organisational changes. Its account of succession represents the body he led; it should be compared with records from other branches when studying disputes over authority. | ||
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| + | Bricaud's collection became part of the municipal library at Lyon through gifts made by his widow in 1954 and 1957. Geoffrey Haraux's study of the library's acquisitions records an earlier attempt by the librarian Henry Joly to secure Bricaud's archives in 1941, before their seizure by the Gestapo. The post-war donation was therefore a separate stage in the dispersal and preservation of his papers and books.<ref name="haraux">Geoffrey Haraux, [https://www.enssib.fr/bibliotheque-numerique/documents/65131-dons-legs-et-depots-a-la-bibliotheque-municipale-de-lyon-1950-2010.pdf ''Dons, legs et dépôts à la Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon, 1950–2010''], Enssib, mémoire d'étude, January 2015, pp. 92–93.</ref> | ||
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| + | The first gift comprised about 1,800 works, chiefly from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, together with unpublished manuscripts. A further 167 volumes followed in 1957. The library's annual report announced a room bearing Bricaud's name. Haraux places the acquisition within Joly's programme of collecting material on esotericism and Freemasonry, which also included the papers of [[Jean-Baptiste Willermoz]].<ref name="haraux" /> | ||
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| + | Letters from Bricaud also survive outside Lyon. The Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris lists correspondence from him and from Madame Bricaud in the papers of the writer and journalist José de Bérys.<ref>Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris, [https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/16871/004b1984244 ''Fonds José de Bérys: Lettres à José de Bérys''], Catalogue collectif de France, entries 8-TFS-022-619 and 4-TFS-022-440.</ref> | ||
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Jean Bricaud (1881–1934), also known as Joanny Bricaud and Johannès Bricaud, was a French esoteric writer, Gnostic church leader and organiser of Memphis-Misraïm in Lyon.[1][2][3]
Writing and church leadership
Bricaud wrote on religious movements and esoteric authors. The BnF catalogue records Un disciple de Saint-Martin. Dutoit-Membrini d’après des documents inédits (1901), La petite Église anticoncordataire (1906) and studies of J.-K. Huysmans published in 1913.[1]
A homily published at Lyon in 1908 marks his elevation to the patriarchal seat of the Église gnostique universelle under the name Jean II. This contemporary publication documents his church role; it is distinct from evidence of a Masonic appointment.[2]
Memphis-Misraïm at Lyon
Bricaud’s notes record a French Sovereign Sanctuary chartered on 10 September 1919, based at Humanidad in Lyon, and a constitution adopted in 1930.[3]
He died on 21 February 1934; Constant Chevillon succeeded him in March and later continued his historical notes.[3]
Use as a historical source
Bricaud’s chronology is valuable as an account written by an office-holder, naming charters, lodges and organisational changes. Its account of succession represents the body he led; it should be compared with records from other branches when studying disputes over authority.
Library and correspondence
Bricaud's collection became part of the municipal library at Lyon through gifts made by his widow in 1954 and 1957. Geoffrey Haraux's study of the library's acquisitions records an earlier attempt by the librarian Henry Joly to secure Bricaud's archives in 1941, before their seizure by the Gestapo. The post-war donation was therefore a separate stage in the dispersal and preservation of his papers and books.[4]
The first gift comprised about 1,800 works, chiefly from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, together with unpublished manuscripts. A further 167 volumes followed in 1957. The library's annual report announced a room bearing Bricaud's name. Haraux places the acquisition within Joly's programme of collecting material on esotericism and Freemasonry, which also included the papers of Jean-Baptiste Willermoz.[4]
Letters from Bricaud also survive outside Lyon. The Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris lists correspondence from him and from Madame Bricaud in the papers of the writer and journalist José de Bérys.[5]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bibliothèque nationale de France, works catalogued under Joanny Bricaud (1881–1934).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bibliothèque nationale de France, catalogue record for Johannès Bricaud, Homélie… à l’occasion de son élévation au siège patriarcal de l’Église gnostique universelle, Lyon: Bureaux du Réveil gnostique, 1908.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Jean Bricaud, historical notes on Memphis-Misraïm (1933), updated by Constant Chevillon (1938), reproduced by L’Initiation as “Historique de Memphis-Misraïm”; an account written by leaders of the rite.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Geoffrey Haraux, Dons, legs et dépôts à la Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon, 1950–2010, Enssib, mémoire d'étude, January 2015, pp. 92–93.
- ↑ Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris, Fonds José de Bérys: Lettres à José de Bérys, Catalogue collectif de France, entries 8-TFS-022-619 and 4-TFS-022-440.
Memphis-Misraïm: Overview · Misraïm · Memphis · History · Degrees and organisation · Egyptian symbolism · Organisations and recognition · Regalia and imagery · Sources and further reading
People: Bédarride brothers · Marconis de Nègre · John Yarker · Giuseppe Garibaldi · Papus · Jean Bricaud · Constant Chevillon · Robert Ambelain
Background: Hermeticism · Martinism · Masonic glossary · Comparison with related traditions