Cécile Révauger (born

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( ; ; Gascon language, Gascon ; ) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde Departments of France, department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the Prefectures in F ...

, 1955) is a French historian and historiographer in the fields of

freemasonry Freemasonry (sometimes spelled Free-Masonry) consists of fraternal groups that trace their origins to the medieval guilds of stonemasons. Freemasonry is the oldest secular fraternity in the world and among the oldest still-existing organizati ...

and the

Lumières The Lumières (literally in English: ''The Lights'') was a cultural, philosophical, literary and intellectual movement beginning in the second half of the 17th century, originating in France, then western Europe and spreading throughout the rest ...

. A freemason, she was initiated in 1982 at the Grande Loge féminine de France. She left this

grand lodge A Grand Lodge, also called Grand Orient, Obedience, or by another similar title, is a name for the overarching governing body of a fraternal or other similarly organized group in a given area, usually a city, state, or country. In Freemasonry A ...

to join the Grand Orient de France in 2013.

Masonic historiography

Besides Freemasonry, her research are devoted to the Lumières and the historiography of the Lumières as well as to the history of the English-speaking Caribbean, from the time of plantation companies to the abolition of slavery. Her research on the eighteenth incited her to examine Freemasonry, born in the

Age of Enlightenment The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was a Europe, European Intellect, intellectual and Philosophy, philosophical movement active from the late 17th to early 19th century. Chiefly valuing knowledge gained th ...

. Cécile Révauger focused therefore on a largely unexplored area by the university community. She at first met a certain distrust from Anglo-Saxon Grand Lodges that demonstrated reserves regarding the public character of her work. Révauger gained a

Fulbright scholarship The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States cultural exchange programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people ...

from the Franco-American Commission, which enabled her to conduct research in the libraries of large American lodges in Boston, Washington DC and Cedar Rapids. She thus had access to the most extensive collections of Masonic archives of the United States and, thanks to the quality and quantity of information considered, she wrote a State thesis entitled: ''La franc-maçonnerie en Grande–Bretagne et aux États-Unis au XVIIIe : 1717–1813'' ("Freemasonry in Britain and the United States in the eighteenth. 1717–1813"), supported at the University of Bordeaux III in 1987. By gaining a second search scholarship, she worked on the archives of

Prince Hall Prince Hall (December 7, 1807) was an American Abolitionism in the United States, abolitionist and leader in the Free negro, free black community in Boston. He founded Prince Hall Freemasonry and lobbied for Right to education, education rights ...

lodges in New York and Washington DC and wrote a book on Black Freemasonry in the United States published in 2012: ''Prince Hall au XVIIIe aux États-Unis - Noirs et Franc-Maçons''. Révauger writes in collaboration numerous articles on Masonic subjects and several anthologies. She completed a common work started in collaboration with historian and author Charles Porset before his disappearance: ''Le Monde maçonnique des Lumières. Europe-Amériques et Colonies, Dictionnaire biographique de franc-maçons du siècle des Lumières''.

Main publications

Cécile Révauger heads the journal ''Lumières'' at Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux. She is the author or co-author of the following publications: * . *. *. *. *. *(2008). ''The Abolition of Slavery: The British Debate, 1787-1840'' *.

References

External links

Official siteCécile Révauger - Noirs et francs-maçons
on YouTube
''Noirs et Franc-maçons'', by Cécile RévaugerCécile Révauger
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Revauger, Cécile 21st-century French historians 1955 births Academic staff of the University of Bordeaux French historiographers Living people