Pour La Patrie

Pour la Patrie is a futuristic roman à clef written in the 1890s by Jules-Paul Tardivel. The book is about a francophone ville uncovering an Anglo-Saxon masonic conjure.

The book is futuristic, anticipating things like the fax-machine and biological warfare.

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