"Jacques De Molay, Thou Art Avenged!"
A frequent recurring legend relates how when Louis XVI was guillotined, a French Freemason rushed from the crowd, dipped his hand in the king's blood (or grabbed the head and held it) and yelled, "Jacques de Molay, thou art avenged!" This story first appeared in The Illuminatus! Trilogy, a work of science fiction, in 1975.
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