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The Lodge of Bussi-Aumont The Lodge of Bussi-Aumont
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Correspondence and Visits Correspondence and Visits
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Friendship and Letter Writing Friendship and Letter Writing
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The Meaning of Friendship The Meaning of Friendship
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Counting on Friends Counting on Friends
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The End of Friendship The End of Friendship
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4 “New but True Friends”: The Friendship Network of Philippe-Valentin Bertin du Rocheret
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Published:July 2014
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This chapter examines how male friendship was lived in daily life by focusing on the correspondence network of Philippe-Valentin Bertin du Rocheret, a wine merchant and civil servant based in Champagne. In the mid-1730s, police pressure closed down Rocheret's Bussi-Aumont lodge, but he and his masonic friends actively wrote and visited each other over the next two decades. Before analyzing the bond between Rocheret and his masonic friends, this chapter provides a brief biographical sketch of their network along with their frequency of letter writing and visits. It then considers the structural aspects of masonic sociability as well as the content and purpose of the masonic letters, with particular emphasis on the terminology and categories of thought used by Rocheret and his group when describing themselves as “friends.” It also discusses the ways that these men provided one another both emotional and practical support and describes their bond as “unritualized friendships.”
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