'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

• 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.