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AWM.736.032
2-9 Sep 1736:21 (871)
Private letters from Paris mention, that Mademoiselle Salle,
the famous dancer, so well known for the coolness of her
passions, and who values herself at a very high rate for her
vestal pretences, has invested an order at Paris, by the
name of the Indifferents, into which both men and women are
indiscriminately admitted. Mademoiselle Salle is the
president of the order, and upon the introduction of every
member, makes a nice scrutiny into their qualifications.
There are likewise certain rites performed, which, after the
manner of the Free Masons, no one must ever disclose. The
badge of the order is a ribbon, strip'd black, white and
yellow, and the device affixt to it, something resembling an
icicle. They take an oath to fight against love, whose
power they renounce, and defy his whole quiver of darts.
They allow all freedom amongst themselves, where every thing
is to be in common; but the hour any of the parties grow
particular, he or she is to be excluded with infamy.
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