Jacques Mitterrand (1908-1991) was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France and a founder of the small left wing party Union progressiste, for which he was an MP between 1947 and 1958.
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In 1877, the Grand Orient de France (GOdF), the largest Masonic body, at the instigation of the Protestant priest Frédéric Desmons, allowed those who had no belief in a Supreme being to be admitted as members, resulting in an ongoing schism between the GOdF and the United Grand Lodge of England (and their respective affiliated lodges) due to the departure of the GOdF from the theistic requirement of belief in a Supreme Being for all members.