When Elie Tisseyre wrote about the Stele of Marie de Nègre d’Ables he did not associate it with any “mystery” or “treasure” or a “secret”.

To Elie Tisseyre, the stele was just another stele.

Just like the accounts by Antoine Fages, August Fons – just like the Bulletin SESA 1906, page LIV and “La Dépêche du Midi” – they did not associate the stele with any “mystery”, “treasure” or “secret”.

The stele, in each and every one of these accounts, is only described as a stele.

The most likely explanation of its existence was that it was discovered by workmen beneath the overgrowth of the old cemetery, who were making way for Abbé Bérenger Saunière's new office.