Paul Smith

It is fashionable today for the Believers in the Myth to uncritically claim that the Alpha Galates were founded by Georges Monti.

Georges Monti died in 1936 – but the Statutes of the Alpha Galates are dated 1937.

An article attributed to "Jean Falloux" entitled "Our Goal" in the very first issue of Vaincre (21 September 1942) stated that Pierre Plantard "has decided to found today a ‘Grand Order of Chivalry’, the ALPHA GALATES, to be devoted solely to the service of the Fatherland alongside the Marshal [Pétain]."

But by issue Number 3 of Vaincre (21 November 1942) a fake ancient pedigree of the Alpha Galates began taking shape – according to an article attributed to "LeComte Moncharville" entitled "The East and the West II" it was claimed: "When Catholicism chased the Druids out of Gaul, some of the monks collected together the Atlantean traditions and formed the Alpha, which then split into two branches: the Cistercians, who adopted Christianity, and the Chivalric Order of Galate, which preserved the Atlantean doctrine." Another article attributed to "LeComte Moncharville" in issue Number 5 of Vaincre (21 January 1943) went on to elaborate about the subterranean city of Alpha that had been inhabited by Galatean Knights.

In issue Number 4 of Vaincre (21 December 1942) an article attributed to "Louis Le Fur" entitled "In the Service of the Alpha" claimed that after contacting Georges Monti by letter in 1934 the "author" said he became a member of the Alpha Galates six months later. Although it is implied here that the Alpha Galates existed in 1934 there is no reference given that it was founded by Georges Monti – and it is the only time that the name of Georges Monti is referred to in the entire six issues of Vaincre that were edited by Pierre-de-France-de-Plantard.

It was Gérard de Sède in his 1988 book, Rennes-le-Château: le dossier, les impostures, les phantasmes, les hypothèses who first popularised the claim that the Alpha Galates were founded by Georges Monti – overlooking the references in Vaincre that stated it was an ancient order of Chivalry ultimately dating back to Atlantis. And Gérard de Sède's claim has been taken as Fact by various authors like Robert Richardson, Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince, Filip Coppens and more recently by Laurent ‘Octonovo’ Bucholtzer.

Not only is the claim wrong that the Alpha Galates were founded by Georges Monti – contradicted by the statements made in the very first issue of Vaincre – it cannot even be established that the various articles in Vaincre attributed to "Louis Le Fur", "LeComte Moncharville", "Camille Savoire" and others were actually written by those people.

Quoting from a Police Report on Pierre Plantard dated 8 February 1941: "Plantard, who boasts of having links with numerous politicians, seems to be one of those dotty, pretentious young men who run more or less fictitious groups in an effort to look important and who are taking advantage of the present trend towards taking a greater interest in young people in order to attract the Government's attention" (File Ga P7 located in the Paris Prefecture of Police).

For example, it is a known fact that Maurice LeComte Moncharville was not even living in France between 1942-1943 when the six issues of Vaincre appeared that produced the articles attributed to him, and LeComte Moncharville never wrote any esoteric articles in his entire life.

When Pierre Plantard revived Vaincre in 1989 he repeated Gérard de Sède's claim that the Alpha Galates were founded by Georges Monti in 1934 (himself overlooking the content in the issues of Vaincre dating from the 1940s) – and that Emile Hoffet had been one of its members – and that he himself had become the Grand Master of the Alpha Galates in the company of Jean-Charles Legrand and Francois Ducaud – later becoming Monsignor Francois Ducaud-Bourget (Vaincre, April 1989).

Pure Fantasy.