On Page 52 of Le Mystère Décrypté (2024) is found the blast of criticism against English Language books like The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, Bloodline of the Holy Grail, The Tomb of God, The Templar Revelation, Rex Deus, City of Secrets and Bloodline The Movie Documentary (Mockumentary).

Guess what – there is absolutely no difference between the examples given and the books by the author of Le Mystère Décrypté, or books by Christian Doumergue, or books by Daniel Dugès, or many other French authors. They are all Rennes-le-Château TREASURE BOOKS.

The same sort of hypocrisy was found by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln when they stated in The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail their thesis was not an Ancient Astronaut book by Erich von Däniken – like it had to be “held aloof like it was some sort of work of scholarship” – well, it has been over 42 years later and there has not been a single peer review in sight.

The claim that Pierre Plantard was initiated into the L'Avenir du Chablais Lodge in Thonon-les-Bains in Haute-Savoie, and remained there for 18 months because he was excluded in January 1954 (page 58), comes from the Appendix to the Historical-Esoteric thriller by Éric Giacometti & Jacques Ravenne, Apocalypse (France Loisirs, 2010).

It’s certain that both the ghosts of Georges Jean Painvin and Henry de Monfreid would burst out laughing at the contents of Le Mystère Décrypté. The various speculations only get wilder and wilder. Today's True Believers in the Treasure of Rennes-le-Château reject Pierre Plantard and Philippe de Chérisey – but they insist that the Large Parchment was not devised by them – because they are mesmerised by it – and even though the Large Parchment is never mentioned by anyone before Plantard and de Chérisey! (The original copy of the Large Parchment was given to Jean-Luc Chaumeil by Pierre Plantard, so that it could be included in a book that Chaumeil was writing during the late 1970s, to discredit Gérard de Sède, because they argued over the profits of L’Or de Rennes).

The Rennes-le-Château Treasure is a lunatic-fringe subject matter that is rejected by sensible people, in the same way that flying saucers, ghosts and the supernatural, Ancient Aliens, Oak Island, Skinwalker Ranch, Tarot Cards and Astrology are rejected for exactly the same reasons. Incidentally, the claim that Rennes-le-Château was Rhedae was mainly spearheaded by Louis Fédié and is not accepted by the majority of mainstream historians.

Okay, so there are people who are totally hooked and need to get their regular fix in the treasure and its “unknown history” not taught in schools, colleges and universities – but where are the references to trafficking in masses in their books? It is omitted altogether.

Another factor involved is that books like this perpetuate the Tourism to Rennes-le-Château. There is financial revenue involved.

It is the excavation of Abbé Bérenger Saunière's Account Books that is required. Not the excavation of his church.