The Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles (or DRAC), who is in charge of historical buildings, is a service of the French Ministry of Culture. It does not recognise any “Treasure”, “Mystery”, "Secret” or “Hidden Bloodline” in relation to the village of Rennes-le-Château.

In actual fact, there was nothing special about the village until Noël Corbu began spreading the myth of a treasure, following the death of Marie Denarnaud on 29 January 1953. The myth created by Noël Corbu soon began to develop accretions with the arrival of hoaxsters knocking on the door – like Pierre Plantard and Philippe de Chérisey during the early 1960s. What exists today is a giant boil that needs to be pierced.

Documentaries about the subject matter abound. The very first documentary, called “La Roue Tourne”, starred Noël Corbu as Abbé Saunière and was broadcast on 29 April 1961 by the channel RTF.

Bundles of documentaries have been made since, serving as a Tourist Magnet to the area, including “L'abbé, le diable et les chercheurs” [Part 1] and [Part 2]. Philippe Brunel is in the process of making such documentaries/mockumentaries today.

Gil Galasso holds a ‘Docteur en Histoire Contemporaine’ (Doctorate In Contemporary History).

Gil Galasso's recent 2024 article conveniently omits all the points that are raised in sceptical books on the subject matter, and anyone can see that he is really just a confused scatterbrain, bearing all the hallmarks of the formulated believer. Indeed, the author omitted to mention the earliest known article on the subject matter in 1948, written by Roger Crouquet. Crouquet did not refer to any “treasure” or mysterious goings-on at Rennes-le-Château, although he did mention the trafficking in masses (a mass request to “America” – where else?).

Literally nothing exists about a treasure before Noël Corbu.

Gil Galasso mentioned that in 1911 – during Saunière's Ecclesiastical Trial with the Carcassonne Bishopric – that he turned to the Vatican to become reinstated as village priest. However, Gil Calasso failed to mention the existence of a letter from Saunière's solicitor, Canon Huguet, dating from the day of his death on 22 January 1917 (posted from Rome), where his solicitor mentioned by flashback that the Bishop of Carcassonne could only offer him the position of priesthood as long as it was not in Rennes-le-Château.

There is also the evidence of the correspondence record sent and received by the priest of Rennes-le-Château 1896-1915 (830 pages), deposited on microfilm in the Departmental Archives of the Aude (1Mi8/1 and Imi8/2).

Will these facts ever get in the way of the Addiction to the fantasies? Highly unlikely. But these facts are mainly written for the benefit of those who do not have them and are genuinely interested in the difference between Fact and Fantasy.

The addictions are a perpetual motion machine that keep bubbling up time after time and, to be absolutely blunt, it is just as likely that the engines of Flying Saucers are fuelled by Cow Blood as there was anything resembling a “mystery” at Rennes-le-Château.