* Wikipedia promotes itself as an online educational service

Yet Wikipedia chooses to mix fact with fantasy on its online article about the "Priory of Sion" – below is a sample demonstration showing that the "Priory of Sion" is a modern hoax dating from the 1960s which even its creators did not take seriously – unlike today’s believers, especially in the Anglo-Saxon world.

Jean-Luc Chaumeil shows the "parchments" that were created by Philippe de Chèrisey during the early 1960s for Gérard de Sède’s 1967 book, L’Or de Rennes – given to him by Pierre Plantard (from the BBC2 Timewatch Documentary The History of a Mystery, aired on 17 September 1996)

Close-up of the smaller "parchment" showing Plantard’s annotation in red ink explaining that the "parchment" was the handiwork of Philippe de Chèrisey (from the same above documentary)

Close-up of Philippe de Chèrisey’s handwriting from his unpublished document "Stone and Paper" explaining that he was the creator of the "parchments" and that it was all a joke – Philippe de Chèrisey also wrote in "Stone and Paper" Alors je me sentirai tout a fait a l’aisle pour me declarer l’unique auteur de cette plaisanterie … Que si aujourd’hui je ne serai qu’un demi-faceur, j’en serai bientot un complet ("Therefore I feel completely free to call myself the sole author of this joke … If today I am only a half-prankster, then shortly I will be a full one") – the decoding process of the "parchments" follows this handwritten declaration by Philippe de Chèrisey (from the Discovery Channel satellite documentary Conspiracies On Trial: The Da Vinci Code, first aired on 10 April 2005

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