The Story of the Ecossais Lodge of New Orleans

The documents in this volume cover some fifteen years and provide an understanding of Freemasonry in French Louisiana. First come the Regulations, followed by the Special Rules imposed by the lodge Parfaite Union at Saint-Pierre de la Martinique on its daughter-lodge. The New Orleans brethren, desirous of obtaining Constitutions for a Parfaite Loge d'Ecosse, prepared a Projet de Reglement particulier that illuminated their Masonic ideals and in 1756 they sent their Bro. Roussillon to present it to Bordeaux; but Roussillon did not return until 1764, not long before the transfer of New Orleans to Spain, which of course rang the death knell of Freemasonry in Louisiana.