To clarify something that doesn’t really need clarifying.

It was only Pierre Plantard and Philippe de Chérisey who linked Abbé Saunière with paintings – and ever since then, most Rennes-le-Château spammers (wrongly called “researchers”) have believed it to be “factually accurate” and have written books and supplied websites and online message boards about this non-sequitur!

I mentioned the letter specifically because it was omitted from Sandy Hamblett’s blog. I repeat again, when the documentary “History of a Mystery” (1996) was originally available on analogue, the word “paranoia” could be read. Now we have upgraded to Digital, High Definition and 4K (more recently 8K) – that has made writing found in correspondence originally given in Analogue blurry and unreadable.

In fact the letter that was pointed out by me did not have anything to do with paintings but rather with Saunière’s “Trip to St Sulpice” – so I correct myself in this instance. It was claimed once upon a time (in 1994, without any supporting evidence), and repeated by the authors of “Tomb of God” in 1996, that Saunière visited St Sulpice to perform Mass there.

ANYWAY, the connection between the paintings and Abbé Saunière is only the product of the fertile imaginations of Pierre Plantard and Philippe de Chérisey – and this worthless fantasy is still around us today in 2025 as the French believers themselves give us all plenty of reason to believe they continue to be fooled. If it is not the paintings, it is the worthless large parchment and its bogus “decryption”. It is the large parchment that mentions “Poussin”.

Again it needs to be repeated. Nobody takes the slightest bit of notice. Especially DRAC. For example, in the original story (from the 1960s) the parchments were found in Saunière’s hollow pillar in 1891 – until it was proved that the pillar was replaced by a donation dated 27 July 1887 from a rich widow! The parchments discovery was bogus. But the believers had an instant remedy – they merely swapped the date 1891 for 1887!

Believers have chosen to live in the world of fantasy instead of the world of reality because it’s more fun. It’s an adventure, as one Webmaster keeps repeating!