Essay
with Marie-France Etchegoin
Robert Laffont, November 2009
Presentation
Freemasonry, at the heart of Dan Brown's new novel, continues to arouse as much fascination as it does fantasies. Marie-France Etchegoin and Frédéric Lenoir have gone back to the roots of this secret society. Why and how did it come into being? What are its rites and teachings, its links with religion, the esoteric nebula, or politics? Who was part of it? Their investigation recounts a formidable human adventure with its heroes, famous or anonymous, and its utopias. Wars, revolutions, conspiracies, in Europe and America...
This saga, which reads like a novel, also unmasks prejudices and legends. As they did for The Da Vinci Code , Marie-France Etchegoin and Frédéric Lenoir deliver at the end of this work a rigorous decryption of The Lost Symbol . An essential read for those who want to decode Dan Brown's latest novel without bias, but also a work that will fascinate all those interested in the true history of Freemasonry.
Translations
PIPER
Arabic: DAR AL KHAYAL Dar Al Khayal
Spanish: EDICIONES B
Romanian: SC NICOL CART