Charles Porset (15 April 1944 – 25 May 2011, aged 67) was a French writer and historian. He wrote numerous books, articles and papers on the "Fait Masonic" in the eighteenth century.
Biography Charles Porset taught philosophy in high school until 1976, before entering the École normale supérieure of Fontenay-aux-Roses in 1977 as an agrégation lecturer. At that time, he participated in the founding of the Society for the History and Epistemology of Language Sciences, in collaboration with Sylvain Auroux..
In charge of research at the CNRS within the framework of the URA 96 of the CNRS in Paris IV, "dixhuitièmiste", he renews the reading of Montesquieu, Voltaire and Rousseau His work revisits the thinking of the Lumières.. His field of study included close contact with the school of , a specialist in the linguistics and anthropology of the Enlightenment at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, in the German Democratic Republic, where he spent a research period in 1978.
Freemason Charles Porset was a member of the Grand Orient de France, in which he held several important positions defending a modern, committed and demanding conception of freemasonry.
As historiographer, one of his most important work is the which he co-directed with the academic Cécile Révauger.
Main publications 1995: Voltaire franc-maçon 1996: . 1996: Mirabeau Franc-Maçon publisher: Rumeur des Ages 2000: 2003: 2012: 2012: 2013:
See also Freemasonry in France
References
External links Les Francs-maçons et la Révolution article by C. Porset on Persée Hommage à Charles PORSET Resume Obituary