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    Joseph Gabriel Antoine Jogand-Pagès, better known by the pen name Léo Taxil (French: [leo taksil]; March 21, 1854 – March 31, 1907), was a French writer...
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    Taxil hoax was an 1890s hoax of exposure by Léo Taxil, intended to mock not only Freemasonry but also the Catholic Church's opposition to it. Taxil,...
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  • up Léo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Léo is a proper noun in French, meaning "lion". Its etymological root lies in the Latin word Leo. Léo is used...
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    birth of Christ. Léo Taxil (1854–1907) claimed that Freemasonry is associated with worshipping Lucifer. In what is known as the Taxil hoax, he alleged...
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  • presented to him by the Viceroy of Egypt. Between the years 1885 and 1897, Léo Taxil maintained a hoax against both Freemasonry and the Roman Catholic Church...
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    birth of Christ. Léo Taxil (1854–1907) claimed that Freemasonry is associated with worshipping Lucifer. In what is known as the Taxil hoax, he alleged...
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    originated with the Taxil hoax. Lévi's Baphomet was depicted on the cover of Les Mystères de la franc-maçonnerie dévoilés, Léo Taxil's lurid paperback "exposé"...
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  • friend of Léo Taxil and one of the many victims of the Taxil hoax. A former Freemason who said in 1885 that he converted to Catholicism, Taxil revealed...
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  • Rachkovsky, Diana Vaughan and one of the greatest hoaxers of the 19th century, Léo Taxil. The peak of Simonini's career is composing what would become The Protocols...
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    Temple of Satan. A reaction to this was the Taxil hoax in 1890s France, where an anti-clerical writer Léo Taxil (aka Marie Joseph Gabriel Antoine Jogand-Pagès)...
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