Henri Roger Gougenot des Mousseaux

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Henri Roger Gougenot des Mousseaux , also Chevalier Gougenot des Mousseaux (born April 22, 1805 in Coulommiers , Département Seine-et-Marne , † November 5, 1876 ibid) was a French anti-Semitic writer .

Life

Roger Gougenot des Mousseaux came from a noble monarchist family. He was chamberlain to King Charles X. After his overthrow in the July Revolution of 1830 , he refused to recognize the legitimacy of the citizen king Louis-Philip I and withdrew into private life, where he devoted himself to his studies. The convinced Catholic first dealt with magic and esotericism , the danger of which he wanted to present in several writings. Later he dealt with secret societies , especially Freemasonry, with the same intent .

He was married to the equally noble Marie-Elisabeth-Constance Gossey de Pontalery.

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In 1869 Gougenot des Mousseaux published the work for which he is still known today: The anti-Semitic pamphlet Le Juif, le judaïsme et la judaïsation des peuples chrétiens . In this work he relied on the traditional, Christian anti-Judaism of authors such as Théodore Ratisbonne (1802-1884), but expanded it with new elements: Gougenot des Mousseaux criticized the Jews for their loyalty to the Talmud and, in particular, their lack of priesthood. This also were liberal Jews or even atheists Jewish origin affected: Separation into pious Orthodox on the one hand and on the other hand, unbelievers or freethinkers was just a clever tactic of Jews to deceive Christians: During a partial forbid the Talmudic essence of Judaism, working the other about undermining the very foundation of Christianity and morally harming the majority population. Gougenot des Mousseaux called this process the “Judaization of the Christian peoples” mentioned in the title of his work. But their real goal is infallibly world domination . Gougenot des Mousseaux expanded this conspiracy theory by declaring the Freemasons to be allies of the Jews, and even to be identical with them: Freemasonry was nothing but

"A daring venture of Judaism, an artificial Judaism for the purpose of recruiting strangers - and especially Christians - for the Jewish race."

This claim is recognizably wrong, since the lodges were originally closed to the Jews. For Gougenot des Mousseaux's contemporaries, however, it did not seem without plausibility, since the French lodges - unlike, for example, the German - now also accepted Jews: Adolphe Crémieux (1779–1880), President of the Alliance Israélite Universelle , held high ranks in the Scottish Rite of High Degree Freemasonry. Gougenot des Mousseaux insinuated that the Freemasons as well as socialists and Jews had " not endured the triumph of the papacy " and that they had conspired against the Pope and Catholicism .

reception

At first, Gougenot des Mousseaux's influence was limited to a small circle of followers within France because of his "quirky style". His thesis of a Jewish-Masonic world conspiracy was taken up in 1880 by canon Emmanuel Chabauty (approx. 1827-1914), who wrote it in his work Les Francs-Maçons et les Juifs. Sixième Age de l'Église d'après l'Apocalypse expanded and placed in an eschatological context. In Hungary, the liberal MP Győző Istóczy (1842–1915) used Gougenot des Mousseaux's conspiracy theory as early as 1875 when he argued that Judaism was by no means a religion, but rather an ethnic definition. At the beginning of the 20th century, the conspiracy theoretical discourse begun by Gougenot des Mousseaux spread ever further. It reached its first climax in 1905 with the publication of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion , a forgery probably originating in Russia . In 1921, the National Socialist Alfred Rosenberg translated Gougenot des Mousseaux's work into German under the title The Jew, Judaism and the Judaization of the Christian Peoples .

Umberto Eco lets him appear as a character in his novel The Cemetery in Prague .

Works

  • Étude sur les Beth-El , Aux Bureaux de la Revue, 1843
  • L'émancipation aux Antilles françaises , Paris, Dauvin et Fontaine, 1844
  • Le Monde avant le Christ. Influence de la religion dans les États, ou Séparation et harmonie entre les institutions religieuses et les institutions politiques , Paris, P. Mellier, 1845. Réédité aux Editions Saint-Remi en 2005: LE MONDE AVANT LE CHRIST
  • Des Prolétaires, nécessité et moyens d'améliorer leur sort , Paris, Mellier frères, 1846.
  • Dieu et les dieux, ou Un voyageur chrétien devant les objets primitifs des cultes anciens, les traditions et la fable, monographie des pierres dieux et de leurs transformations , Paris, Lagny frères, 1854. Réédité aux Editions Saint-Remi en 2005: DIEU ET LES DIEUX
  • Mœurs et pratiques des démons ou des esprits visiteurs, d'après les autorités de l'Église, les auteurs païens, les faits contemporains, etc. , Paris, H. Vrayet de Surcy, 1854. Réédité aux Editions Saint-Remi en 2005: MŒURS ET PRATIQUES DES DEMONS OU ESPRITS VISITEURS DU SPIRITISME ANCIEN ET MODERNE
  • Essai généalogique sur la maison de Saint-Phalle, d'après monuments et d'après titres existant encore , Notices sur un grand nombre de maisons, Coulommiers, A. Moussin, 1860.
  • La Magie au dix-neuvième siècle, ses agents, ses vérités, ses mensonges , précédée d'une lettre adressée à l'auteur par le P. Ventura de Raulica, Paris, H. Plon, 1860. Texts en ligne
  • Les Médiateurs et les moyens de la magie, les hallucinations et les savants; le fantôme humain et le principe vital , Paris, H. Plon, 1863. Réédité aux Editions Saint-Remi en 2005: Moyens et Médiateurs de la Magie
  • Les Hauts Phénomènes de la magie , précédés du Spiritisme antique , Paris, H. Plon, 1864. Texts en ligne Réédité aux Editions Saint-Remi en 2005: LES HAUTS PHENOMENES DE LA MAGIE, PRECEDES DU SPIRITISME ANTIQUE
  • Mœurs et pratiques des démons ou des esprits visiteurs, d'après les autorités de l'Église, les auteurs païens, les faits contemporains, etc. , Paris, H. Plon, 1865.
  • Le Juif, le judaïsme et la judaïsation des peuples chrétiens , Paris, H. Plon, 1869
  • La Question des princes d'Orléans , Paris, F. Wattelier, 1872

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Also on the following Jacob Katz : From prejudice to destruction. Anti-Semitism 1700–1933 , CH Beck, Munich 1989, p. 142 ff.
  2. ^ Daniel Pipes : Conspiracy. Fascination and Power of the Secret , Gerling Akademie Verlag Munich 1998, p. 213.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Benz : The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The legend of the Jewish world conspiracy. CH Beck, Munich 2007, p. 17.
  4. ↑ Jacob Katz: From prejudice to destruction. Anti-Semitism 1700–1933 , CH Beck, Munich 1989, p. 145.
  5. ↑ Jacob Katz: From prejudice to destruction. Anti-Semitism 1700–1933 , CH Beck, Munich 1989, p. 145.
  6. ^ Umberto Eco: The cemetery in Prague , published by Carl Hanser Verlag Munich 2011, p. 238
personal data
SURNAME Gougenot des Mousseaux, Henri Roger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gougenot des Mousseaux, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Coulommiers , Seine-et-Marne department
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1876
Place of death Coulommiers , Seine-et-Marne department