While French society is crossed by debates on secularism, racism, anti -Semitism or religious intolerance, Emmanuel Macron intends to remember “the spirit of freedom” brought by this founding law of French secularism.
“Once again it will be a way of registering, as he has always done in line with the founding parents of this law, beginning with Aristide Briand, and remembering that it is a law of freedom and that it is in this mental state that has the intention of commemorating in December” its 120th anniversary, said the French presidency.
A first for the Head of State
This will be the first visit of a President of the Republic to the Grand Lodge of France, a second Masonic obedience in France after the Great East of France. It has 32,000 members, against 55,000 for Grand Orient.
The Head of State will visit, in the 17th District of Paris, the Grand Lodge Museum, will be caught with his great teacher, Thierry Zaveroni, before pronouncing his speech in the Temple of Pierre-Brossolette, named for the former resistance fighter who was also a Mason.
It is considered that the great lodge of France is more discreet and spiritualist. It is also composed of men. The great east of France, more turned into social problems and traditionally anchored to the left, is mixed.
Source: BFM TV
