La sociabilité maçonnique à l’île Bourbon : les apports des écrits du for privé

Abstract

Over the past ten years historians eager to advance the study of cultural practices have been making the most of private writings. Within this framework texts are increasingly presented as “fragments of Masonic life” as we can in this text excerpted from “Memories colonial” by of Philippe Urbain Pierre Thomas, thus revealing “real life fraternal relations”.