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PRIORY OF SION
ESSENTIAL BOOKS
Factually reliable books on the Priory of Sion
– the organisation lying at the very heart of Dan
Brown’s best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code (which
the author maintains "exists") – are listed below:
providing the accurate historical facts to this subject matter.
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Jean-Luc Chaumeil
Rennes-le-Château – Gisors – Le Testament du Prieuré de Sion (Le Crépuscule d’une Ténébreuse Affaire)
Pégase, 2006
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Mario Arturo Iannaccone (Preface by Massimo Introvigne)
Rennes-le-Château una decifrazione – La genesi occulta del mito
Sugarco Edizioni, 2004
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Bernardo Sanchez Da Motta
Do Enigma de Rennes-le-Château ao Priorado
de Siao - Historia de um Mito Moderno
Esquilo, 2005
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The version of the "Priory of Sion"
involving Godfrey de Bouillon, the Knights Templars and the
Merovingians was a figment of Pierre Plantard’s imagination
dating from the early 1960s when he first met Gérard de Sède
and began collaborating with him on the Gisors story, that was
first begun by Roger Lhomoy (Lhomoy was Gérard de Sède’s
pig-farmer at the time). This romantic fabrication was concocted
by Plantard at that time in order to make money and nothing else
– no "hidden esoteric secrets" were involved. The
Rennes-le-Château "connection" was introduced sometime
later.
The real Priory of Sion was formed in 1956, and
it terminated during the same year. It was named after the Col du Mont Sion
located outside the town of Annemasse where Plantard
lived during the 1950s. It was an organisation devoted to the
promotion of Low-Cost Housing, attacking the property developers
of Annemasse and supporting the local opposition candidate to the
local Government authority as outlined in the pages of its
journal, Circuit.
Every French group, club and organisation must
register itself with the French Authorities to comply with the
1901 French Law of Associations, and Pierre Plantard and André
Bonhomme were joint signatories to the 1956 Priory of Sion
Registration Documents and Statutes that were deposited on 7 May
1956 at the Sub Prefecture of St Julien-en-Genevois.
Paul Smith
priory-of-sion.com
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