Adoptive Lodges during the Empire

In the aftermath of the French Revolution, adoptive Masonry was reconstituted and developed rapidly through the turn of the century, without regaining the prominence and glamour it had previously enjoyed. It lost its innovative and rebellious edge, and became instrumental to the regime, gathering a Bonaparte-devoted elite around a few illustrious figures such as Josephine de Beauharnais and Caroline Bonaparte.

Adoptive Masonry then boasted about thirty Lodges, mostly concentrated in Paris. Turning their backs on feminism, they lapsed into frivolous pursuits.