Charles Porset

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'''Charles Porset''' (15 April 1944 – 25 May 2011, aged 67) was a French writer and historian. He wrote numerous books, articles and papers on the "Fait Masonic" in the eighteenth century.

== Biography == Charles Porset taught philosophy in high school until 1976, before entering the École normale supérieure of Fontenay-aux-Roses in 1977 as an agrégation lecturer. At that time, he participated in the founding of the Society for the History and Epistemology of Language Sciences, in collaboration with Sylvain Auroux.<ref name="JOB1">{{Cite news |first1=Jean Claude |last1=Porset |title=Charles Porset |journal=Joaben |year=2016 |publisher=CGC/GODF |issue=7}}.</ref>

In charge of research at the CNRS within the framework of the URA 96 of the CNRS in Paris IV, "dixhuitièmiste", he renews the reading of Montesquieu, Voltaire and Rousseau<ref name="JOB1" /> His work revisits the thinking of the Lumières.<ref name="gadlu">{{Cite web |url=http://www.gadlu.info/lumieres-revolution-franc-maconnerie-hommage-a-charles-porset.html |title=Lumières, Révolution, Franc-Maçonnerie |language=fr |trans-title=Enlightenment, Revolution, Freemasonry |website=www.gadlu.info |year=2011 |access-date=1 October 2016}}.</ref> His field of study included close contact with the school of {{ill|Ulrich Ricken|de}}, a specialist in the linguistics and anthropology of the Enlightenment at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, in the German Democratic Republic, where he spent a research period in 1978.

== Freemason == Charles Porset was a member of the Grand Orient de France, in which he held several important positions defending a modern, committed and demanding conception of freemasonry.

As historiographer, one of his most important work is the {{lang|fr|Dictionnaire prosopographique consacré au monde maçonnique des Lumières (Europe-Amériques et dépendances)}} which he co-directed with the academic Cécile Révauger.

== Main publications == *1995: ''Voltaire franc-maçon'' *1996: {{Cite book|title=Les Philalèthes et les Convents de Paris|date=1996 |publisher=Honoré Campion|isbn= 978-2852035348|pages=776}}. *1996: [https://www.detrad.com/contents/fr/p2787_Mirabeau_Franc-Ma_on_-_Charles_Porset.html ''Mirabeau Franc-Maçon''] publisher: Rumeur des Ages {{ISBN|2843270014}} *2000: {{Cite book|title=Hiram sans-culotte ?;Franc-maçonnerie, Lumières et Révolution|series=Dix-huitièmes siècles|date=1998 |publisher=Honoré Campion|isbn=978-2852038615|pages=442}} *2003: {{Cite book|title=Voltaire Humaniste|date=2012 |publisher=Edimaf|isbn=978-2919601226|pages=160}} *2012: {{Cite book|title=Oser penser !;Notes intempestives d'histoire maçonnique|date=June 2012 |publisher=Éditions à l'orient|isbn=9782912591616|pages=613}} *2012: {{Cite book|title=La devise maçonnique ''Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité''|series=Encyclopédie maçonnique|date=2012 |publisher=Éditions Maçonniques de France|isbn=9782919601165|pages=88}} *2013: {{Cite book|author1=Cécile Révauger|author2=Charles Porset|title=Le monde maçonnique des Lumières. Europe-Amérique et colonies;Dictionnaire prosopographique|publisher=Honoré Champion|series=DR26|date=2013 |isbn=978-2745324962}}

== See also == * Freemasonry in France

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == * [http://www.persee.fr/doc/ahrf_0003-4436_1990_num_279_1_1291 ''Les Francs-maçons et la Révolution''] article by C. Porset on Persée * [http://www.gadlu.info/lumieres-revolution-franc-maconnerie-hommage-a-charles-porset.html ''Hommage à Charles PORSET''] * [http://emsomipy.free.fr/Bibliographie/P/Porset.aa.Auteur.htm Resume] * [https://www.jlturbet.net/article-charles-porset-est-mort-74806950.html Obituary] {{authority control}}

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