This is certainly interesting. Pierre Plantard and Philippe de Chérisey are avoided by today's True Believers in the Mythical Treasure of Rennes-le-Château. But they continue to be both mesmerised and hypnotised by the Large Parchment with its bogus decoding technique involving the Vigenère Square, the Knight's Tour, totally arbitrary shifting of letters, using two different keywords that can only be known by the creator, and the use of two chessboards, one of which has to have half of the Knight's Tour used in reverse. The deciphered message is intended to be an exact anagram of the epitaph found on the gravestone of Marie de Negre d'Ables, the Countess of Blanchefort. [The Large Parchment contains the word “SION” in stylised fashion, together with the miniature words “rex mundi” within its text, facts that are frequently omitted by the True Believers.]

This has to be appreciated. It does not take skill, but rather the gift of something akin to advanced mathematics to devise such a bogus code and decipherment. It cannot be achieved by brain power alone. If you understand its complex process, you will also know that a variation of it can also be found in the article attributed to Norberto, “Le Symbolisme de L'Echiquer”, found in Vaincre, No 3, pages 17-19; Septembre 1989, thus demonstrating that a process only known by its creator, was also understood by Pierre Plantard, because Philippe de Chérisey had died in 1985 – unless, of course, Plantard was using materials composed by Philippe de Chérisey from when he was still alive, and drawing on old material dating from the approximate time when the Large Parchment was created.

Whether it is Jauclin, François Lange, Daniel Dugès, or Paul Saussez – people are DESPERATE to prove an earlier pedigree for the Large Parchment that predates Pierre Plantard and Philippe de Chérisey in order to “justify” and “rationalise” their interest in it.

The True Believers know that Pierre Plantard and Philippe de Chérisey were illogical, contradictory and simply stupid in their various and many accounts – yet the True Believers demand total 100% rational common sense from them when it comes to their parchments.

Finally, Jean-Luc Chaumeil possesses correspondence between Philippe de Chérisey and Pierre Plantard where the former stated it would be a good idea to fabricate a story about Sauniere’s “discovery” of parchments due to the success of the popularity in France at the time of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The True Believers are NOT interested in this.

The hoax of Pierre Plantard and Philippe de Chérisey lives on so long as the Large Parchment continues to exist. Its mesmerising and hypnotic power on the True Believers is a testimony to that fact.