The Rennes-le-Château “mystery” can be rationalised as originally being related to French history and the subsequent use and abuse of the monarchist priesthood for the trafficking of masses for financial gain. Much of the Abbé Saunière’s own symbolism relates to Monarchist French history. The Rennes-le-Château “mystery” has since ultimately become a gimmick for the production and manufacture of financial gain for the local municipal authority. The whole subject matter adds up to nothing except amusement for the curious – or an exercise in speculation for the gullible. The present use of the “mystery” of Rennes-le-Château is symptomatic of the modern world's desire and addiction to Hocus-Pocus fake histories.

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1789 – The First French Revolution. Christianity abolished.

1792 – The First French Republic established on 21 September.

1798 – Napoléon Bonaparte invaded Egypt.

1801 – Napoléon Bonaparte signs the Concordat (15 July) with papal and clerical representatives in both Rome and Paris. Christianity restored in France.

1804 – Declaration of the First French Empire on 18 May under Napoléon Bonaparte who established French hegemony over much of continental Europe at the beginning of the 19th century. It lasted from 18 May 1804 to 3 May 1814 and again briefly from 20 March 1815 to 7 July 1815, when Napoléon was exiled to St. Helena (died in 1821 aged 51).

1812 – Napoléon Bonaparte invaded Russia (24 January 1812 to 14 December 1812).

1815 – The Duke of Wellington defeats Napoléon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo (18 June) mainly due to help from the Prussians.

1830 – The Second French Revolution (July Revolution, 26-29 July). Louis Philippe I (House of Orleans) reigns in France. Reigned until The Third French Revolution (The February Revolution) in 1848 that ousted him, who abdicated to England.

1830 – The Apparition of the Virgin Mary to Catherine Labouré on the feast date of St Vincent de Paul (18 July). A voice of a child called Catherine Labouré into a chapel, where the Virgin Mary told her “God wishes to charge you with a Mission”. The chapel in question was the mother house of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul in Rue du Bac, Paris. On 27 November the Apparition returned to Catherine Labouré. Her description of what she saw was passed on to clerics that resulted in the manufacture of the medallion called the “Miraculous Medal” through the goldsmith Adrien Vachette. It bears the inscription “Ô Marie, conçue sans péché, priez pour nous qui avons recours à vous (O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee)”.

1848 – Second French Republic established. In December Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte starts his term as the first elected president of the French Republic.

1852 – Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte becomes Napoléon III of France and creating the Second French Empire until 1872. The Second French Empire was an Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoléon III from 14 January 1852 to 27 October 1870, between the Second and the Third French Republics. The period was one of significant achievements in infrastructure and economy, while France reasserted itself as the dominant power in Europe.

1858 – Apparitions of the Virgin Mary to Bernadette Soubirous 18 times between 11 February and 16 July, in a cave on the outskirts of Lourdes, describing herself as “The Immaculate Conception”. Bernadette Soubirous was beatified in 1925; canonised in 1933.

1870 – Proclamation of the Third French Republic (30 January).

1889 – General George Ernest Boulanger (nicknamed “General Revenge”) suffered defeat during the General Elections. His support was primarily the working-class districts of Paris, rural traditionalist Roman Catholics and Royalists. Boulanger did bring back a veneer of religion into the government by, among other things, inviting the French primate to bless the Constituent Assembly on its inauguration day. He led a brief but influential authoritarian movement that threatened to topple the Third Republic in the 1880s.

1905 – Separation of Church from State in France.