[479] In addition to the two elaborated upon in the remainder of this chapter, the following are most worthy of note: Staack, _Der Triumph der Philosophie im 18. Jahrhundert_, vols. i, ii, 1803 (already noted); Proyard, _Louis XVI et ses vertus aux prises avec la perversité du siècle_, Paris, 1808 (4 vols.); De Malet, _Recherches politiques et historiques qui prouvent l’existence d’une secte révolutionnaire, son antique origine, ses moyens, ainsi que son but, et dévoilent entièrement l’unique cause de la Révolution Française_, Paris, 1817; De Langres, _Des Sociétés Secrètes en Allemagne et dans d’autres contrées, de la Secte des Illuminés, du Tribunal Secret, de l’assassinat de Kotzebue_, 1819; Le Couteulx, _Les Sectes et Sociétés politiques et religieuses_, Paris, 1863; Deschamps, _Les Sociétés Secrètes et la Société_, vols. i, ii, iii, Avignon, 1874–1876. As late as 1906, in an article in the _Edinburgh Review_ of July of that year, Una Birch traversed much of the ground covered thus far in this and the preceding chapter and, on the theory that an event as spontaneous (?) as the French Revolution _must_ have originated in a definite coördination of ideas and doctrines, reaffirmed the general notion that the Masonic lodges of France, having been inoculated with the doctrines of the Illuminati, became the principal points of associative agitation for, and thus the direct cause of, the French Revolution. This essay may also be found in the volume of essays entitled, _Secret Societies and the French Revolution_ (London and New York, 1911), by the same author. [480] Later editions of this work, which in their number and geographical extent strongly suggest the degree of interest the subject had for the reading public, appeared as follows: second edition, London, 1797; third edition, London, 1798; fourth edition, London and New York, 1798; a French translation, London, 1798–99 (2 vols.); a German translation, Königslutter and Hamburg, 1800; a Dutch translation, Dordrecht (n. d.). See Wolfstieg, _Bibliographie der Freimaurerischen Literatur_, vol. i, pp. 192, 193.