Léonce-Eugène-Joseph Fabre des Essarts (19 March 1848 - 17 October 1917) was a French

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, Symbolist poet, politician and theorist on

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and Esoteric Christianity.

Life

Born in Aouste-sur-Sye, he became a Fourierist and pacifist as well as secretary of

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under

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. He was also deputy for

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as a republican-socialist, becoming friends with

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and was crowned at the Jeux floraux in

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as well as being involved in the administration of state education. He was one of the first bishops consecrated by

Jules Doinel Jules-Benoît Stanislas Doinel du Val-Michel (8 December 1842 in Moulins, Allier – 16 or 17 March 1903), also known simply as Jules Doinel or Tau Valentin II was an archivist and the founder of the first Gnostic church in modern times who cla ...

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, taking the name "Tau Synesius" as Bishop of Bordeaux. After Doinel broke with that church, Fabre des Essarts was elected patriarch in 1896, collaborating with his fellow Gnostic bishop Louis-Sophrone Fugairon (Tau Sophronius) to develop the Church. In 1900 he allowed Doinel to be re-admitted to the Church and re-consecrated bishop of Alet and Mirepoix under the name "Tau Jules". In 1901 Fabre des Essarts consecrated Jean Bricaud (1881-1934) bishop of Lyon under the name "Tau Johannes", followed by twelve other Gnostic bishops between 1903 and 1910, including Léon Champrenaud / "Tau Théophane" (1870-1925) as bishop oF

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;

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/ "Tau Palingénius" (1886-1951) as bishop of

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and Patrice Genty / "Tau Basilide" (1883-1964). He also founded a synarchist

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lodge and contributed to the occultist review ''L'Initiation''. He died in 1917 at

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according to some sources or

according to others.

Works

Author

* ''Humanité'', Paris : A. Lemerre, 1885 * ''La force, le droit et les trois chambres'', Paris : E. Girand, 1885 * ''Mon maître : réponse à Mme Claire Vautier'', Paris : impr. A.-M. Beaudelot, 1887 * ''La maison de Victor Hugo et la famille de Lusignan'', Fabre des Essarts & Michelis di Rienzi, Paris : typographie A.-M. Beaudelot, 1887 * Fabre Des Essarts. ''Pour lui. - Le Bouquet de la sœur,'' par Mathilde Fabre Des Essarts, Toulon : Impr. toulonnaise, 1894 * ''L'Arbre gnostique'', par Synésius, Paris : Chamuel, 1899 * ''Odes phalanstériennes'' ; ppendiceVictor Considérant, notes intimes, extrait du journal "la Méditerranée", 15 janvier 1894, Montreuil-sous-Bois (Seine) : au bureau de "la Rénovation, 1900 * ''Les Hiérophantes, études sur les fondateurs de religions depuis la Révolution jusqu'à ce jour. 1re série... Fouché, Chaumette, Chantreau et le culte de la Raison ; Robespierre et l'Être suprême ; J.-B. Chemin, Valentin Haüy et les théophilanthropes...'',Paris : Chacornac, 1905 * ''Sadisme, satanisme et gnose'', Paris : Bodin, 1906 * ''Le Christ sauveur, drame gnostique en 3 journées'', Paris : Bibliothèque Chacornac, 1907 * ''Les Dessous de l'affaire Gilly-Andrieux'', Paris : A. Savine, 1888

Forewords

* ''Les enseignements secrets de la gnose'', Simon lbert de Pouvourvilleet Théophane éon ChamprenaudMatgioï ; vant-propos de Jean-Pierre Laurant; vant-propos de Synésius Paris : R. Dumas, cop. 1975 * ''Le procès des Trente : vu à travers la presse de l'époque telle qu'elle a été conservée par Madame Fénéon mère et annotée par Félix Fénéon à l'issue de son procès'' / préliminaire d'Emile de Saint-Auban ; préface de Fabre des Essarts ; Edition établie par Maurice Imbert, Paris : Histoires littéraires, impr. 2004

As translator

* ''Les Églogues de

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e : interprétées en vers français, avec une étude de P. Laignel sur Virgile & la pastorale ; gravures d'après l'antique ; �pître liminaire de Maurice Croiset', Paris : Charles, 1901

References

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