The Jesuit Myth

• Anti-Jesuitism; the Restoration; the July Monarchy; the road to Article 7; structures, imagery and argument; murder, money and spies; Jesuits in plain clothes; the confessor and the school; history and morality; Jesuits and Jesuitism.

'Geoffrey Cubitt's original and important book, the first serious study of the Jesuit myth, provides many startling and even comical insights into the fears and fantasies of the nineteenth-century French Left. Cubitt uses them here as the basis for an incisive analysis of conspiracy theory inside France and beyond.'Robert Tombs, The Observer