Napoleon (1769-1821) was so fanatical about Freemasonry that, in his own bombastic way, he threatened to outlaw it if the separate hostile factions of the Craft in France did not unite under one body. Even Josephine supported his enthusiasm of the fraternity by joining and becoming active in adoptive Freemasonry in the Lodge Les Francs Chevaliers at Paris in 1804, along with several ladies of her court. When Napoleon's body was returned to France in 1840, the Grand Orient of France summoned all Freemasons to attend the funeral procession.
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