Publishing Details of L'Or de Rennes (1979)
(Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris, DÉPÔT LÉGAL, 4° Z Piece 1182, 02-03-1979). Pages 3-4. French original

Attached are the various documents in the “L'OR DE RENNES” file and, by way of example, you will notice the meagre sums received as royalties: for 1972, Gérard de SÈDE received 1,395 FR (i.e. 35%) and I received 2,790 FR (i.e. 65%), which proves that this book was not “a golden ticket” as was claimed!

(Pierre Plantard’s signature)

RENÉ JULLIARD
Publisher

19 July 1965

Mr Pierre Plantard
35, avenue Victor Hugo
PARIS 16

[handwritten: See you on Monday 26 July 65 at 10am]

Dear Sir,

I am unable to reply to your kind letter of 17 July because Mr Pierre Javet has not been with us for several months.

Mr Christian Bourgois, our Director, is currently on holiday. But I would be very happy to talk to you about your new manuscript, “LE TRÉSOR DE RENNES LES BAINS DANS L'AUDE”. Would you be so kind as to telephone me so that we can arrange a meeting?

Yours faithfully,

Janine Musy.

RENÉ JULLIARD
Publisher

Paris, 9 November 1967

Mr Pierre Plantard
35, avenue Victor Hugo
PARIS XVI°

Dear Sir,

Mr Jean-Claude Brieville has forwarded to me your letter of 5 November. I am sorry about this oversight on our part. I apologise and will send you 20 copies of L'OR DE RENNES immediately in accordance with our contract,

Yours sincerely,

Anne RIVES

ÉDITIONS RENÉ JULLIARD
COPYRIGHT PAYMENT SLIP
SALES ACCOUNTS
from 1/1/1971 to 31/12/1972

Mr Pierre PLANTARD

TITLE OF PUBLISHED WORK	AMOUNTS
1°) L’Or de Rennes/The Gold of Rennes	2,790.05
2°) Les Templiers sont parmi nous/The Templars are among us	583.11
	3,373.16
Advances on accounts 7/2/1972 Advance on account                  1,000.00 14/4/1972                          1,500.00 5/7/1972                           300.00                                    2.800,00
Our cheque is attached in the sum of: We hope this arrives in good order.	573.16

CONTRACT

Between the undersigned:

Mr Gérard de SEDE - 14, Faubourg Saint-Honoré - PARIS 8e
Mr Pierre PLANTARD - 35, Avenue Victor-Hugo - PARIS 16e
hereinafter referred to as “The Publishers”

IT HAS BEEN AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

The Author assigns to the Publishers, who accept for themselves and their successors in title, the exclusive right to print, publish, reproduce in any form, in any language and in any country, and to sell at their expense, risk and peril, a work provisionally entitled:

LA VIE INSOLITE DE BÉRENGER SAUNIÈRE/
THE UNUSUAL LIFE OF BÉRENGER SAUNIÈRE
which he has written for public sale in bookshops.

This assignment is made under the following general conditions, subject to the notifications and additions resulting from any special clauses added to the general conditions.

GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

ARTICLE I - SCOPE OF THE ASSIGNMENT
1) The present assignment is made to have effect in all places and for as long as the literary property of the author, his successors in title or representatives lasts, in accordance with French and foreign legislation and current or future international conventions on literary property, including...

The Publishers will inform the author of their decision within three months of the date of submission of each final manuscript. In the event of acceptance, the Publishers will have a period of twelve months in which to publish the works proposed, although they will not be required to publish more than one volume per year. The conditions under which these publications will be carried out will be those set out in this contract.

When the Publishers have successively refused two new works by the Author, the latter will, if he so wishes, regain his freedom with regard to any future works that he produces.

In the event that the Author has received advances on future works, he/she must reimburse these in advance.

ARTICLE XI - UNFORTUNATE CIRCUMSTANCES
In the event of fire, flood, act of God or force majeure, the Publishers cannot be held responsible for damaged, destroyed or missing copies, and no rights or compensation will be due to the Author.

If the loss affects copies for which the rights have been paid in advance, the said rights will be carried over to the replacement volumes.

ARTICLE XII - JURISDICTION
All disputes arising from this contract shall be referred to the Courts of the Seine.


SPECIFIC CLAUSES

All sums accruing from the execution of this contract shall be shared between the two authors as follows:

1 - Mr Pierre PLANTARD at 65% (sixty-five per cent)
2 - Mr Gérard de SÈDE at 35% (thirty-five per cent)

It is also clearly understood that, in accordance with Mr Pierre Plantard's wishes, his name will not appear in any way either in the text or in the presentation of the work or in any publicity relating to it.

Signed in duplicate,
Paris, 13 January 1967

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