Dossiers Secrets

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The Dossiers Secrets d'Henri Lobineau ("Secret Files" in English) is a 27 paged document that was deposited in the Bibliothèque nationale de France on 27 April 1967. The document represents part of the fictitious history of the Priory of Sion as manufactured by the duo of Pierre Plantard and Philippe de Cherisey - and 13 of its 27 pages is taken from another document of the same genre dating from 1964: Henri Lobineau's Généalogie des Rois Mérovingiens et Origine des diverses Familles Françaises et Etrangères de Souche Mérovingienne d’Après L’Abbé Pichon, le Docteur Hervé et les Parchemins de l’Abbé Saunière de Rennes-le-Château (Aude), containing home-made genealogies done on Pierre Plantard's stencil-kit attempting to demonstrate that he was descended from the Merovingian King Dagobert II.

Apart from those 13 pages, Dossiers Secrets d'Henri Lobineau is comprised of the following material:

- An introduction to the document by an Edmond Albe

- Maps of France and a Merovingian genealogy from a scholarly book

- Newspaper clippings relating to the freedom of Occitania

- A spurious letter attributed to Noel Corbu relating to Emile Hoffet

- A spurious letter to Marius Fatin from the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers - that has since been recognised as a forgery - because the Header does not date from the time it was written

- A List of the Grand Masters of the Priory of Sion

- A page allegedly from the journal of Regnabit, but in actual fact a patchwork of paragraphs from Paul Le Cour's 1937 book, The Age of Aquarius

- An obituary of the priest M. L'abbe Geraud de Cayron

The documents were used as source material by Henry Lincoln (who was unaware that they were forgeries) for a series of BBC Two documentaries in the 1970s. Then in 1982, Lincoln and two co-authors, Richard Leigh and Michael Baigent, again used them as source material for the bestselling 1982 pseudohistory book Holy Blood Holy Grail, which was in turn used as source material for the 2003 bestselling novel, The Da Vinci Code.

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Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) is the National Library of France, located in Paris. It is intended to be the repository of all that is published in France. The current president of the library is Bruno Racine.
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Prieuré de Sion, usually rendered in English translation as Priory of Sion (occasionally as 'Priory of Zion'), is an alleged thousand-year-old cabal featured in various conspiracy theories, as well as being listed as a factual ancient mystery religion in the
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Pierre Athanase Marie Plantard (March 18, 1920 – February 3, 2000) was a French draughtsman, best known for being the principal perpetrator of the hoax of the Priory of Sion, which he established to manufacture evidence that he had a legitimate claim to the French throne.
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Philippe de Chérisey (February 13,1923 – July 17, 1985) was a French writer, radio humorist, and actor (under the name of Amédée). He is best known for his involvement in the creation of fake documents concerning the "history" of the Priory of Sion.
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Dagobert II (c. 650 – December 23, 679) was the king of Austrasia (676 – 679), the son of Sigebert III and Chimnechild of Burgundy. He was the last of the Merovingian dynasty to rule independently in Austrasia, with the exception of Charles Martel's dubious
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Noel Corbu was a hotelier in the Central French town of Rennes-le-Château.

In 1946 Noel Corbu purchased the former estate of the Abbe Berenger Sauniere, the former priest of Rennes-le-Chateau between 1885-1909, and during Easter 1955 he opened a restaurant in the Villa
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Henry Lincoln (born 1930) is the most popular pseudonym of Henry Soskin, an English writer and actor. He co-wrote three Doctor Who multi-part serials in the 1960s, and—starting in the 1970s—created a series of books and BBC Two documentaries on the
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Richard Leigh is the name of:
  • Richard Leigh (author) (born 1943), co-author of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
  • Richard Leigh (songwriter) (born 1951), American country music songwriter
  • Richard Leigh (martyr) (1561–1588), Catholic martyr

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Michael Baigent, born March 1948 in Christchurch, New Zealand,[1] is an author and speculative historian who co-wrote (with Richard Leigh) a number of books that question mainstream perceptions of history and many commonly-held versions of the life of Jesus.
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Pseudohistory is a pejorative term applied to texts which purport to be historical in nature but which depart from standard historiographical conventions in a way which undermines their conclusions.
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The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (retitled Holy Blood, Holy Grail in the United States) is a controversial book by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln, which was based in large part on Pierre Plantard’s Priory of Sion.
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The Da Vinci Code

Author Dan Brown
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Religion, Thriller, Crime, Fiction, Mystery novel
Publisher Doubleday (U.S.) & Bantam (UK)
Publication date 18 March 2003 (U.S.
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Arrondissement Limoux
Canton Couiza
Mayor Jean-François Lhuilier
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