ABSTRACT

THE BASTILLE CLEMENTINO VANNETTI would never have understood the state of rapturous enthusiasm in which Cagliostro left the majority of his French disciples, had it not been for the numerous documents which testified to it. The prison, the

triumphant acquittal, and then the Master's expulsion, had combined to inflame fanaticism. In England the Grand Cophte received letters which had all the fervour of a declaration of love.