Jules Boucher was a French writer, occultist, alchemist, and Freemason. He is especially known for his work La Symbolique maçonnique, first published in 1948, which has become an essential reference in the field of Freemasonry.
Initiated into Freemasonry in 1943, during the German Occupation, he joined the clandestine lodge "L'Arche d'Alliance" of the Grande Loge de France in Paris. Later, he was a member of several lodges within this obedience.
A disciple of the alchemist Fulcanelli, Jules Boucher also founded the Rectified Martinist Order in 1948, thus contributing to the spread of esoteric teachings in France.
In 1951, he suffered a severe heart attack that forced him to withdraw from public life during the last four years of his life. He is buried in the Ivry cemetery in Paris.
