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Post by Jenny on Aug 19, 2020 10:05:19 GMT -5
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Post by Jenny on Aug 19, 2020 10:26:52 GMT -5
(from article above)-
The rise of the Rennes le Chateau treasure mystery takes a foothold in January 1956. This traction was from the printing of a three part tale about the unexplained wealth, mysterious discoveries, and secrecy of Berenger Sauniere. Sauniere was the village priest of Rennes le Chateau, and lived there from 1885 until his death in 1917. The series of articles, highlighting Sauniere’s curious activities during that time, appears in La Depeche du Midi of Southern France.
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Post by Bownarrow on Oct 17, 2020 5:44:33 GMT -5
The wikipedia entry for Rennes -Le- Chateau has the info below stating that the first popular acccount about Abbe Sauniere was from 1948:
The first known popular article about Saunière was written by Roger Crouquet in the Belgian magazine Le Soir illustré, published in 1948.[27] The author was visiting the Aude to meet his friend Jean Mauhin, a Belgian who had moved to Quillan to open a bell and hat factory, and at his suggestion visited Rennes-le-Château. There Crouquet collected testimonies from villagers about Saunière. One person[who?] told how the priest "preferred wine and women to practising the priesthood. At the end of the last century he had a rather original idea. He placed in foreign newspapers, especially in the United States, an advertisement announcing that the poor priest of Rennes-le-Château lived among heretics and had only the most meagre of resources. He moved the Christians of the whole world to such pity by announcing that the old church, an architectural gem, was heading for unavoidable ruin if urgent restoration work was not undertaken as soon as possible."[citation needed] Crouquet added: "The stoup which decorates the entrance to the chapel is carried by a horned devil with cloven hooves. An old woman remarked to us: 'It's the old priest, changed into a devil'."
Roger Crouquet, Visite a une ville morte: Rennes-le-Château, autrefois Capitale du Comte de Razès, Aujourd'hui bourgade abandonne ("Visit to a dead village: Rennes-le-Château, former capital of the county of Razès, now an abandoned village"), in Le Soir illustré, pages 16-22 (number 819; March, 1948).The first book that I ever read about story was Robert Charroux's book "Treasures of the World" published in 1966 which was an English translation of his book "Tresors du monde" first published in 1962.
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