{"id":19464,"date":"2025-09-30T15:36:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freimaurermuseum.ch\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=19464"},"modified":"2025-10-01T09:08:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:08:50","slug":"herge-and-freemasonry-by-arnaud-de-la-croix","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/freimaurermuseum.ch\/en\/on\/herge-and-freemasonry-by-arnaud-de-la-croix\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abHerg\u00e9 and Freemasonry\u00bb by Arnaud de la Croix"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conference with Belgian publisher and writer Arnaud de la Croix, author of numerous works on medieval orders of chivalry and Freemasonry.<\/h4>\n

The conference language is French. Admission is free.
\nPlease register using the form<\/strong><\/a> at the bottom of this page.<\/p>\n

 
\nProgramme<\/strong>
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14:00<\/td>Welcome address
\nDominique Freymond, Member of the Conservators\u2019 Council
\nJean Rime, Chairman of Alpart<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Presentation by Arnaud de la Croix<\/strong>
\nAudience discussion, moderated by Dominique Freymond, Curator of the exhibition and Jean Rime, Chairman of Alpart<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:30<\/td>Commented tour of the exhibition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16:00<\/td>Ap\u00e9ro
\nDidier Convard, scenarist of the comic book series \u2018Le Triangle Secret\u2019 and \u2018L'\u00e9pop\u00e9e de la Franc-Ma\u00e7onnerie\u2019 will also be present and will sign copies of his albums<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17:00<\/td>End of the event<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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Arnaud de la Croix<\/h4>\n

\"Arnaud<\/p>\n

Arnaud de la Croix was born in Brussels in 1959 and holds a degree in philosophy from the Catholic University of Leuven. He has been working in the Belgian publishing industry since 1983. After serving as editorial director of \u00c9ditions du Cri between 1983 and 1987, he became editor of the \u2018Jeunesse\u2019 department at \u00c9ditions Duculot.<\/p>\n

In 1993, he joined Casterman and worked for 17 years for the Tournai-based publisher, which publishes the Tintin albums, before moving to \u00c9ditions du Lombard as publishing director in 2010 and 2011. As a teacher and lecturer, he is also the author of numerous essays and albums that are considered reference works.
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Bibliography<\/h4>\n

He has published various studies on the subject of comics:<\/p>\n

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  • Herg\u00e9 occulte, la ligne sombre, Foreword by Numa Sadoul, Camion Noir Publishing, 2021<\/li>\n
  • La franc-ma\u00e7onnerie d\u00e9voil\u00e9e, illustrated by Bercovici, Du Lombard Publishing, 2020<\/li>\n
  • Blueberry, une l\u00e9gende de l’Ouest, Point Image Publishing, 2007<\/li>\n
  • Les Pr\u00e9monitions d’Edgar P. Jacobs, Verlag du Tiroir, 2024.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

     
    \nThe speaker’s best-known and most frequently translated historical works are:<\/p>\n

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    • Hitler et la franc-ma\u00e7onnerie, published by Racine, 2013 (paperback edition in the Texto series by Tallandier)<\/li>\n
    • Les Templiers, au c\u0153ur des croisades, Le Rocher, 2002<\/li>\n
    • L’\u00c9rotisme au Moyen \u00c2ge, Tallandier, 1999, continuously reprinted and translated into ten languages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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      As a screenwriter, he wrote the historical triptych Bruxelles (published by Petit \u00e0 Petit) between 2017 and 2019. La Seconde Guerre mondiale en BD, illustrated by Vicente Cifuentes, will be published in 2024, also by Lombard. The following year, he will tell the story of the Belgian royal family in Les Rois des Belges, also with the same illustrator and for the same publisher, in collaboration with screenwriter Jean-Philippe Thivet. <\/p>\n

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      Conference registration<\/h4>\n
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