Bøger af Alain Bernheim

This second volume of letters takes us into the everyday life of the Lodges of Elect in the 18th Century in Toulouse and New Orleans. It also includes some fascinating testimonies of French Masonic life in the period of its total submission to Napoleonic rule. Etienne Morin's existing letters, as published in 1958 by N. Choumitzky in St Claudius, are here translated by Joseph Wages. We thought that we ought to re-examine, complete, correct and translate into English the index of names originally made by Gerry Prinsen for the Latomia edition. Many additions have been made, many more, no doubt, would have been necessary. That work is still in progress.>Ce que nous possedons de la correspondance d'Etienne Morin publiee en 1928 par N. Choumitzky dans la revue St Claudius figure a la suite sous forme bilingue dans une traduction de Joseph Wages. I1 nous a paru necessaire de reprendre et de traduire en anglais l'index des noms elabore par Gerry Prinsen pour l'edition Latomia en le completant, l'amendant et le corrigeant quand il le fallait. De nombreuses donnees ont ete ajoutees, sans aucunement pretendre a l'exhaustivite. Ce chantier reste ouvert et evolutif.

Alain Bernheim was born in Paris on May 23, 1931. At twelve he was interned in Drancy under Occupied France. After World War II was over, Bernheim studied at the National Music Conservatory of Paris, and became the first French Fulbright scholar sent to the United States, where he studied in Boston at the New England Conservatory of Music. He performed approximately 2,000 concerts and piano recitals until 1980. Bernheim was initiated in the Grand Orient of France in 1963, belongs to the Swiss Grand Lodge Alpina (Masonry Universal No. 40) and the Regular Grand Lodge of Belgium (PM Ars Macionica No. 30). In 2010 he was the first French elected active member of Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076 (United Grand Lodge of England), which he demitted in 2014 while serving as Senior Warden. In addition he is a 33° of the of the Supreme Council of the United States (Southern Jurisdiction), Visiteur Général d'Honneur of the Grand Priory of Belgium, a member of the Royal Order of Scotland and a Membre d'Honneur of the Supreme Council of France. His Masonic scholarship has earned him twice the Norman Spencer Award from QC Lodge No. 2076, the Albert Gallatin Mackey Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Scottish Rite Research Society, the Caroubi Prize from the Supreme Council of France and the Golden Acacia Special Prize at the Masonic Book Fair in Paris (2014) for the whole of his work.