Pierre Mollier is a graduate of the Instiut de'Etudies Politiques de Paris and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes of the Sorbonne. He has been editor of Renaissance Traditional and contributes to Politica Hermetica and Faliro. He is an authority on the French painter Jean-Francois Garneray. He holds the medal and ribbon of the French Republic's Order of Arts and Letters for his contributions to French culture. Pierre Mollier is the Director of Library, Archives, and Museum of the Grand Orient of France, with a special scholarly interest in the First Empire and the Third Republic.