LA FRANC-MAÇONNERIE VOILÀ L'ENNEMIE!

Paris: Le centre de documentation anti-maçonnique et anti-marxiste, 1935. 7,[2],8-91 pp., including double-page chart, plus [2] pp. of publisher's advertisements. In French. Original printed wrappers. Newspaper clipping from August 29, 1940, on "Les responsabilités de la Maçonnerie" laid in.Wrappers moderately worn, front wrapper creased at upper-outer corner, contents toned, occasional contemporary pencil marks. Very good.

A far-right, anti-Masonic, anti-Semitic screed listing scores of pro-masonic organizations and hundreds of contemporary "agents of freemasonry" in contemporary French politics and media by name. An illuminating double-page chart, "Pouvoir Occulte Judeo-Maçonnique," maps the collaboration between the Freemasons, Socialists, Communists, and bankers from their international organizations to their representation in the French Senate.

The author, Henri Coston (1910-2001), enjoyed a long career of writing anti-Semitic and anti-Masonic tracts before, during, and after his enthusiastic collaboration with the Nazi occupation, during which he organized the published the notorious pro-concentration-camp pamphlet JE VOUS HAIS in 1944. After the war, he was sentenced to hard labor for life but was pardoned in 1952. He publicly supported the Front National and wrote for far-right newspapers for the remainder of his life; he published the five-volume DICTIONNAIRE DE LA POLITIQUE FRANÇAISE between 1967 and 2000.

OCLC records five copies. Scarce.