The Taxil hoax was an 1890s hoax of exposure by Léo Taxil intended to mock not only Freemasonry, but also the Roman Catholic Church's opposition to it.

Léo Taxil was the pen name of Marie Joseph Gabriel Antoine Jogand-Pagès, who had been accused earlier of libel regarding a book he wrote called The Secret Loves of Pope Pius IX.

Promotional poster for Léo Taxil, Les Mystères de la franc-maçonnerie dévoilés ( 1886 ), adapts Lévi's invention.

Between the years 1885 and 1897, Léo Taxil maintained a hoax against both Freemasonry and the Roman Catholic Church, by making increasingly outlandish claims regarding Freemasonry.

This newspaper also came out against ' Diana Vaughan ', an invention of Léo Taxil, before Taxil admitted that his anti-Masonic protégée did not exist in 1897.

In the 1890s, French writer Léo Taxil wrote a series of pamphlets and books, denouncing Freemasonry, charging their lodges with worshiping Lucifer as the Supreme Being.

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Marie Joseph Gabriel Antoine Jogand-Pagès, better known by the pen name Léo Taxil (; March 21, 1854 – March 31, 1907 ), was a French writer and journalist who became known for his strong anti-Catholic and anti-clerical views.

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Doinel then converted to Roman Catholicism and began a collaboration with Léo Taxil, one of many taken in by Taxil's anti-masonic hoax.

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