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persecution suscitée par les Barbares du dix-huitième Siècle, contre la Religion Chrétienne et se Ministres (Paris:
Migneret, 1797). For a discussion of the impact of this work, see McMahon, Enemies 115-120.
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105
Anti-Jacobin Review, Appendix to Volume IV, 561.
Anti-Jacobin Review, Appendix to Volume III (May-August 1799) 552; for the characterization of
Frederick, see Barruel I:99
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108
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110
111
Anti-Jacobin Review, Appendix to Volume VI (April to August 1800) 566-7.
Anti-Jacobin Review, Appendix to Volume V (January-April 1800) 573
Anti-Jacobin Review, Volume I (December 1798) 729-731.
Anti-Jacobin Review, Volume III 553; Preface to Volume IV ix, xii, xii-xiii
Anti-Jacobin Review, Volume IV, xii
For discussions of the movement, its suppression, and its prominence in conspiracy theories, see Epstein,
The Genesis of German Conservatism 87-104; Richard van Dülmen, The Society of the Enlightenment: The Rise of
the Middle Class and Enlightenment Culture in Germany, translated by Anthony Williams (New York: St. Martin's
Press, 1992) 104-118; and Richard van Dülmen, Der Geheimbund der Illuminaten (Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog,
1977), which includes a selection of documents.
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114
Barruel, Memoirs III:vii
Hofman, 49-50.
For éclairer see Barruel, Memoirs I:31 and III:183; for aufgeklärte see III:106. III:118 employs the image
of the diffusion of light to deal with an appearance of Aufklärung in another Illuminati document.
115
John Robinson, Proofs of a Conspiracy(Boston: Western Islands, 1967) 174. However, on the next page he
opts for "mental Illumination" as the translation for Aufklärung in a discussion of a text by Carl Friedrich Bahrdt.
116
Preface to Volume IV (August to December 1799) viii; the same is true of the characterization of Kant's
followers as "enlightened" in the Appendix to Volume V (January-April 1800) 569.