Comte de Gabalis

ABBÉ N. DE MONTFAUCON DE VILLARS.Pierre-Nicolas de Montfaucon was born in Alet-les-Bains (Aude) 1635 in a noble family; but because he was not de elder son his only option was the Church. After some success in the south he decided to go to Paris where he made friends in the libertine circles. Involved in an act of conspiracy against Mazarin he was jailed. In 1668 he wrote his master piece: “Le comte de Gabalis ou Entretien sur les sciences secrètes » a dialogue between a cabalist and a skeptic that was for a few the cause of his violent death. Indeed when he was traveling in the road for Paris to Lyon in March 1675 he was killed by a gun shot. Immediately sprang the legend of the ritual murder because he had made forbidden revelations some words about the true nature of God the effective power of the name Agla and the evocation of “a mystic Empire of Salamanders integrated by mysterious inhabitants of the fire”.