Pierre Plantard and the “treasure” of Rennes-le-Château

 

In 1985 French author ‘Pierre Jarnac’ (Michel Vallet) recounted how Gérard de Sède had only been “the arranger or rewriter of other people’s fantasies” and that the book L’Or de Rennes (reprinted as Le Trésor Maudit de Rennes-le-Château) had really been the work of Pierre Plantard – “the man who compiled the file on Rennes, who interviewed archaeologists, old people and municipal representatives, who trekked across the countryside, who signed deeds and lodged articles of association – it was Plantard who conceived the original plan and wrote the broad outlines of the book” (Histoire du Trésor de Rennes-le-Château, page 280; 1985).

Pierre Plantard was still peddling the claim that there was “something” to Rennes-le-Château in his letter below dated 10 August 1990…



Perpignan, 10 August 1990
My address:
110 Rue Henri Dunant
92700 Colombes

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your letter of 25 July 1990, which reached me (after a short delay) in Perpignan, which I am currently passing through on my way back from Barcelona.

I have written one book, entitled "L'Or de Rennes", which was published under the name of Gérard de Sède about 25 years ago, but this was only a novel, and since then some treasure-hunters who believed that the story contained in it was actually true have invented all sorts of documents that lead back to Rennes.

I have not undertaken any researches in the Caves de la Reine (in the Rennes district), nor in the Souterrains du Roi ("underground chambers of the King"), so there have not been any researches or investigations on my own property.

This property (according to the calculations of the surveyors, as the land registry entry was modified in 1987) has a surface area of 47 or 48 thousand square metres held by a sole tenant. It has the following boundaries: to the South – chemin de Farres; to the North – Roc Pointu; to the East – the main road to Rennes-les-Bains; to the West – the mountain top. On my property are two mines: a copper mine and a gold mine. The copper mine was excavated on the orders of Colbert, while the other one, the gold mine, dates from the Roman era, from about 70 BC. This piece of land is called Roc Nègre.

Across the whole 48,000 square metres there is not a single square metre that has escaped the attentions of those vandals who style themselves "researchers", and that's been going on for 25 years now!

You refer to the tombstone of Coumesourde. I'm sorry to have to disappoint you, but it simply never existed. On the other hand there IS a text dated 1880 or 1890 written by the engineer Ernest Cros based on the Zero Meridian of Paris and the English equivalent in Greenwich (the latter being situated at 9 metres 20.9 seconds west of the Paris Meridian). The triangulation for this study was based at Pontils, between Peyrolles/Serres, at the location of a tomb.

The "secret location" to which you refer is the Roman tomb (50-48 BC) called the Tomb of Gnaius Pompey, which is located in Fangalots at a distance of 1 kilometre 500 metres from my property. It is located between two belfries – those of Rennes-les-Bains and Rennes-le-Château, at 500 metres’ distance from the belfry of Rennes-les-Bains.

With all good wishes, and please do keep me informed of your researches,

P Plantard



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