Louis Amiable | A French Mason of Kadikoy

Mavi Boncuk |


Louis Amiable, né en 1837 et mort en 1897, est un avocat, auteur et franc-maçon français, docteur en droit et maire du Ve arrondissement de Paris. Louis Amiable fut avocat, conseiller de la cour d'appel, puis maire du Ve arrondissement de Paris de 1888 à 18911. Il est le fondateur de la Société du Barreau de Constantinople. Il collabora au Journal des économistes, au Progrès de Lyon, à La République française de Gambetta et à La justice de Clemenceau. Il fut membre du Grand Collège des Rites et du Conseil de l'Ordre du Grand Orient de France[1]. Il est l'auteur d'une monographie sur la loge des Neufs Sœurs (1897), qui est aujourd'hui assez sévèrement critiquée. En 1886, il met en œuvre une réforme du Rite français dans une version adogmatique et positiviste.

Louis Amiable,(b.1837- d.1897), is a lawyer, author and French Freemason, Doctor of Law and mayor of the fifth arrondissement of Paris. Louis Amiable was a lawyer, adviser to the court of appeal, then mayor of the fifth arrondissement of Paris from 1888 to 1891. It is the founder of the Law Society of Constantinople. He collaborated in the Journal of Economists in Progress Lyon, the French Republic Gambetta and Clemenceau Justice. He was a member of the Grand College of Rites and of the Council of the Order of the Grand Orient of France[1]. He is the author of a monograph on the Lodge of the Nine Sisters (1897), which is now severely enough critiquéed. In 1886, he implemented a reform of the French Rite in a non-dogmatic and positivistic release.


See also: Freemasonry in Greece (1782-2003) and the Greek War of Independence (1821-1828) By Andreas C. Rizopoulos

"... The first documented lodge to have been erected on Greek soil is considered to be Loggia Beneficenza (Benevolence) established in Corfu, the capital of the seven Ionian Islands, in 1782 under the authority of Grand Mother Lodge of Verona at Padova and ultimately under the National Directorate of Lyon of the French Scottish Reformed Rite. This lodge became very soon dormant when the Venetian Republic started persecuting Freemasonry. It was revived in 1797 when the French occupied the Ionians for a brief period and became again dormant when the islands were under Russian occupation, until 1806 when the French came to the Islands for the second time. Then it was revived and was united with lodge Filogenia, which was working in Corfu, under the new name Beneficenza-Filogenia Riunite, Filogenia meaning friendship of the nation (genus). Then in 1811 Count Dionyssios de Roma applied to the recently revived Grand Orient of France on 21 November 1811 to place this lodge under its aegis. Following the approval of the Grand Orient of France, Roma turned the lodge into a ‘Provincial Mother Lodge’ that is, a lodge with the authority to create new lodges in the area. Eventually after the beginning of the British Protection in 1815, Roma and the other Freemasons of the time, decided to declare the lodge as Serene Grand Orient of Greece. That was a very bold move if we are to consider that at the time there was no country existing under the name of ‘Greece’. It is noteworthy that after the launch of the War of Independence in 1821, Metternich, the influential Austrian Foreign Minister was stating that he knew of no country with the name of Greece because he could not find it on his maps.

Roma took another bold initiative by approaching the Grand Master of the newly formed United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE), Augustus Duke of Sussex, offering him the position of Grand Master of the new Grand Orient. It seems that Roma on the one hand was trying to obtain legitimacy of the new body and on the other hand to serve a political purpose. The kettle of the Revolution was already on the fire and at the same time the Islands were the only part of Greece that was beyond the reach of the Ottomans. While the mainland of Greece was still under the Ottoman yoke there were a number of lodges erected in Corfu, Zante, Cephalonie, Lefkas (Santa Maura) and Patras.


During the years of the War of Independence (1821-1828) it seems that there was no Masonic activity as such in Greece. Greek Freemasons were active in the War and instrumental in its success, but that was not the time for regular Masonic activity. Following the liberation of Greece the Ionian Islands remained under the British Protection and Freemasons continued with their normal activities. At the same time in the mainland the first Governor Ioannis Capodistria, although a Freemason himself, proscribed all secret societies, including Freemasonry, in 1828 and it was not until the 1850s that Freemasonry was revived."