Gabriel André Aucler

[4] The book was written when the revolutionary fervour had decreased; according to the Biographie universelle : ancienne et moderne, it obscures the full extent of Aucler's teachings.

'The Ascendant of Religion, or Account of the crimes and furies, of the conversion and Christian death of a great culprit, which took place recently in the city of Bourges').

[7] The occultist Lazare Lenain [fr] in Amiens was influenced by Aucler and continued to perform pagan rites after the Bourbon Restoration.

[9] Together with the poem "Christ in the Olive Grove" (1844) and the book Voyage to the Orient (1851), "Quintus Aucler" has been analyzed as central in Nerval's interest in religious decline.

[10] He wrote that Aucler might be taken for a madman when viewed from outside of his social context, but described La Thréicie as "a book which imposes respect through honesty of intentions and sincerity of beliefs".

[12] Gaume compared Aucler's paganism to contemporaneous projects such as the "allegorical mysticism" of François Antoine de Boissy d'Anglas, Pierre Gaspard Chaumette and Robespierre, the "timid polytheism" of Jean-Baptiste Chemin-Dupontès and François Antoine Daubermesnil [fr], the Cult of Reason and the plant-covered altars of Theophilanthropy.

[13] Gaume wrote that Aucler stood out with his dissatisfaction with everything except the full restoration of ancient polytheism and its establishment as state religion.