Roger Dachez (born in 1955) is a professor at the Paris Diderot University and president of the Jean-Alfred Fournier Institute in Paris. He is a physician, an historian and a freemason.
He is the author of numerous research articles on the historical origins and the traditional sources of freemasonry.
Alain Bauer is a French criminologist who has been a professor of criminology at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers since 2009. He is also a senior research fellow at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the China University of Political Science and Law (Beijing). There were many protests in the scientific community in France against the appointment because he had not received a PhD.
Pierre Grimal was a French historian, classicist and Latinist. Fascinated by the Greek and Roman civilizations, he did much to promote the cultural inheritance of the classical world, both among specialists and the general public.
Alain Bernheim was a French classical pianist who performed internationally. In 1980, he turned to research of the history of Freemasonry in France, Switzerland and Germany and published books and encyclopedic entries in the field.
Freemasonry in France has been influential on the worldwide Masonic movement due to its founding of Continental Freemasonry.
The Women's Grand Lodge Of France is the Grand Lodge of France's women-only Masonic lodges.
The Primitive Scottish Rite is a Masonic Rite. According to Robert Ambelain, an esotericist who "awakened" it in 1985, it was the rite used by the St. John of Scotland Lodge in Marseille, which was introduced to France in Saint-Germain-en-Laye from 1688; these claims are disputed by historians.
Bruno Étienne was a French sociologist, freemason and a political analyst. He was a specialist of Algeria, Islam and anthropology of the religious and masonic fact.
Pierre Mollier is a French historian and freemason, born in Lyon in 1961. A graduate of Sciences Po, he holds a master's degree in Religious Studies, and is the director of the library, archives, and museum for the Grand Orient de France.
Jean Marquès-Rivière (1903–2000) was a French journalist, writer and screenwriter.
Paul Naudon, was a Doctor of Law and a 20th-century French historian, author of several books on freemasonry.
Joseph Décembre, dit Décembre-Allonier was a 19th-century French writer, historiographer and freemason.
Charles Porset was a French writer and historian. He wrote numerous books, articles and papers on the "Fait Masonic" in the eighteenth century.
Yann Le Bohec is a French historian and epigraphist, specializing in ancient Rome, in particular North Africa during Antiquity and military history.
Georges Poisson was a French art historian.
Pierre Riché was a French historian specializing in the early Middle Ages and the year 1000.
Maria Michela Marzano is an Italian researcher, philosopher and writer. Politically connected to the Italian left, she was elected a Member of the Italian Parliament for the Democratic Party in February 2013.
René Guilly, born 27 July 1921 in Paris and died 11 June 1992, was a French journalist, art historian, art critic, museum curator, Freemason, Masonologist and Martinist.
Louis-Jean Calvet is a French linguist.
Anna Féresse-Deraismes was a French feminist activist for women's rights and a Freemason. She was appointed honorary president of the International Congress of Women in 1896 and 1900, and was a founding member of the first mixed-gender Masonic Order, Le Droit Humain. Maria Deraismes was her sister.
Sylvie Brunel is a French economist and geographer, best known for her work for Action Against Hunger from 1989 to 2002, and her various publications in Que sais-je?. She was awarded the Legion of Honour in 2002.