Frédéric Desmons (1832 in

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priest and

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who persuaded the

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in a vote to remove the term of the

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from their Constitution. This precipitated a split with the

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and the birth of liberal or Latin Freemasonry. He studied in Nîmes and then went on to study theology in

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, the stronghold of

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. At death Frédéric Desmons, was buried the Cimetière à Saint-Genies-de-Malgoires, Saint-Genies-de-Malgoires, Departement du Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.

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