The Dossiers Secrets d'Henri Lobineau ("Secret Files" in English) is a 27 paged document that was deposited in the Bibliothèque nationale de France on 27 April 1967. The document represents part of the The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The new buildings of the library. ...

 history of the Priory of Sion. There is speculation that it was manufactured by the duo of Pierre Plantard and Philippe de Cherisey - and 13 of its 27 pages is taken from another document of the same genre dating from 1964: Henri Lobineau's Généalogie des Rois Mérovingiens et Origine des diverses Familles Françaises et Etrangères de Souche Mérovingienne d’Après L’Abbé Pichon, le Docteur Hervé et les Parchemins de l’Abbé Saunière de Rennes-le-Château (Aude), containing home-made genealogies done on Pierre Plantard's stencil-kit attempting to demonstrate that he was descended from the Merovingian King Dagobert II. However the origin of thepapers is truely unknown. 

 Dossiers Secrets d'Henri Lobineau is comprised of the following material: 

• An introduction to the document by an Edmond Albe

• Maps of France and a Merovingian genealogy from an unspecified scholarly book

• Newspaper clippings relating to the freedom of Occitania

• A spurious letter attributed to Noel Corbu relating to Emile Hoffet

• A spurious letter to Marius Fatin from the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers - that has since been recognised as a forgery - because the Header does not date from the time it was written

• A List of the Grand Masters of the Priory of Sion

• A page allegedly from the journal Regnabit, but in actual fact a patchwork of paragraphs from Paul Le Cour's 1937 book, The Age of Aquarius

• An obituary of the priest M. L'abbe Geraud de Cayron

The documents were used as source material by Henry Lincoln for a series of BBC Two documentaries in the 1970s. Then in 1982, Lincoln and two co-authors, Richard Leigh and Michael Baigent, again used them as source material for the bestselling 1982 history book Holy Blood Holy Grail, which was in turn used as source material for the 2003 bestselling novel, The Da Vinci Code. It is possible that the document s are forgeries. Prieuré de Sion, usually rendered in English translation as Priory of Sion or even Priory of Zion, is an elusive protagonist in many works of both non-fiction and fiction. ... Pierre Athanase Marie Plantard (born March 18, 1920, died February 3, 2000) was the principal figure associated with the known history of the Priory of Sion, and is widely believed to have been the main creator of many of the claims about the Priorys supposed past history that later... Philippe de Cherisey (1925 – 1985) was a French writer and radio humorist, he was also an actor who worked under the name of Amédée (with Jeux interdits,1952, being the most notable film that he appeared in). ... Dagobert II (c. ... A version of the flag frequently used by Occitan activists. ... Noel Corbu was a hotelier in the Central French town of Rennes-le-Château. ... Henry Lincoln (born 1930) is the most popular pseudonym of Henry Soskin, an English writer and actor. ... For the BBC radio station, see BBC Radio 2. ... Richard Leigh (Born 1951 in Washington, D.C. is a country music songwriter). ... Author Michael Baigent Reuters Michael Baigent, born March 1948 in Christchurch, New Zealand, is an author and conspiracy theorist who co-wrote (with Richard Leigh) a number of books that question mainstream perceptions of history and many commonly-held versions of the life of Jesus. ... Book cover of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail 2005 illustrated hardcover edition The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (retitled Holy Blood, Holy Grail in the United States) is a controversial non-fiction book by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln, which was based in large part... The Da Vinci Code is a mystery/detective novel by American author Dan Brown, published in 2003 by Doubleday. ...

See also

• Rennes-le-Château

Rennes-le-Château (Rènnas del Castèl in occitan) is a small medieval castle village and a commune in the Aude département, in the Languedoc area in southern France. ...

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