Where started the Memphis Misraim rite?

Jacques Étienne Marconis de Négre is recorded as the inventor and founder of the Rite of Memphis, having established the system alongside his father 1. The Rite operated in France until 1852, when its lodges were closed by French civil authorities 1. Following this period of dormancy, Marconis surrendered his authority as Grand Hierophant to the Grand Orient of France in 1862, which absorbed the Rite on the condition that its lodges confer only the three symbolic degrees of Craft Masonry 1.

The system subsequently spread through administrative bodies established in other jurisdictions, including Egypt and the United States 1. In Egypt, a Sanctuary of Memphis was established, where officers such as A. Zola and Professor Oddi served as Grand Hierophant before a reorganization in 1876 established the Sovereign Grand Council of the Memphis Rite 1. In America, Harry J. Seymour founded a Sovereign Sanctuary in New York, though the Grand Orient of France disavowed his authority to establish higher-degree bodies or grant charters 1.

The available sources treat the system under the name of the Rite of Memphis and do not contain records detailing the historical origin or formal amalgamation of the Rite of Misraim into a joint "Rite of Memphis-Misraim."