Léonce Fabre des Essarts
Illustration — Des Essarts as "patriarch Synésius" of the Gnostic Church Léonce-Eugène-Joseph Fabre des Essarts (19 March 1848 – 17 October 1917) was a French occultist, Symbolist poet, politician and theorist on Gnosticism and Esoteric Christianity.
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Léonce Fabre des Essarts

Le Journal, 31 décembre 1906 (Gallica). · Public domain
- Born
- 1848 · Aouste-sur-Sye.
- Died
- 1917 · Grenoble.
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- France
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- poet
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- Symbolism
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Des Essarts as "patriarch Synésius" of the Gnostic Church Léonce-Eugène-Joseph Fabre des Essarts (19 March 1848 – 17 October 1917) was a French occultist, Symbolist poet, politician and theorist on Gnosticism and Esoteric Christianity.
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Léonce Fabre des Essarts (1848–1917) was a French poet. Born in Aouste-sur-Sye, the poet died in Grenoble. Léonce Fabre des Essarts was associated with Symbolism. Languages used include French.
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Born in Aouste-sur-Sye, he became a Fourierist and pacifist as well as secretary of Louis Andrieux under Boulangism. He was also deputy for Var as a republican-socialist, becoming friends with Victor Hugo and was crowned at the Jeux floraux in Toulouse as well as being involved in the administration of state education. He was one of the first bishops consecrated by Jules Doinel's Gnostic Church of France, taking the name "Tau Synesius" as Bishop of Bordeaux. After Doinel broke with that church, Fabre des Essarts was elected patriarch in 1896, collaborating with his fellow Gnostic bishop Louis-Sophrone Fugairon (Tau Sophronius) to develop the Church. In 1900 he allowed Doinel to be re-admitted to the Church and re-consecrated bishop of Alet and Mirepoix under the name "Tau Jules". In 1901 Fabre des Essarts consecrated Jean Bricaud (1881-1934) bishop of Lyon under the name "Tau Johannes", followed by twelve other Gnostic bishops between 1903 and 1910, including Léon Champrenaud / "Tau Théophane" (1870-1925) as bishop of Versailles; René Guénon / "Tau Palingénius" (1886-1951) as bishop of Alexandria and Patrice Genty / "Tau Basilide" (1883-1964). He also founded a synarchist Masonic lodge and contributed to the occultist review L'Initiation. He died in 1917 at Grenoble according to some sources or Versailles according to others.
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• Les enseignements secrets de la gnose, Simon [Albert de Pouvourville] et Théophane [Léon Champrenaud] Matgioï; [avant-propos de Jean-Pierre Laurant]; [avant-propos de Synésius], Paris: R. Dumas, cop. 1975 • Le procès des Trente: vu à travers la presse de l'époque telle qu'elle a été conservée par Madame Fénéon mère et annotée par Félix Fénéon à l'issue de son procès / préliminaire d'Emile de Saint-Auban; préface de Fabre des Essarts; Edition établie par Maurice Imbert, Paris: Histoires littéraires, impr. 2004
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• Les Églogues de Virgile: interprétées en vers français, avec une étude de P. Laignel sur Virgile & la pastorale; gravures d'après l'antique; [épître liminaire de Maurice Croiset], Paris: Charles, 1901
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1848
Léonce Fabre des Essarts was born on 19 March 1848.
1917
Léonce Fabre des Essarts died on 17 October 1917.
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