Idéologues
Members
- Antoine-Louis-Claude Destutt, comte de Tracy freemason military philosopher politician professor writer
- Benjamin Constant politician translator writer
- Constantin-François de Chasseboeuf, comte de Volney freemason historian journalist philosopher politician professor
- Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès cleric freemason philosopher politician
- Jean-Baptiste Maudru teacher translator writer
- Jean-Baptiste Say economist entrepreneur professor translator writer
- Marie-Joseph Chénier freemason playwright poet politician
- Pierre Daunou historian politician writer
- Pierre-Jean-Baptiste Chaussard civil servant freemason journalist jurist pamphleteer poet politician professor translator writer
- Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis freemason philosopher scientist
- Pierre-Louis Roederer ambassador economist freemason historian journalist jurist pamphleteer politician writer
- Thomas Jefferson philosopher politician translator writer
Notes
The term 'idéologie' was coined by Antoine Destutt de Tracy, an aristocratic philosopher, who sat alongside his friend the marquis de la Fayette in the first National Assembly. Appointed Associate to the Institut de France in November 1795, Destutt de Tracy produced a series of memoirs in the moral and political sciences which were eventually published as 'Elements d'idéologie' (1817-18). He conceived this "ideology" as a science of ideas, and these ideas had a considerable influence over many of his colleagues who became known collectively as the 'Idéologues'. Many of whom were also members of Les Neuf Soeurs masonic lodge and Madame Helvétius' Cercle d'Auteuil.