TRANSLATION
In our archive holdings we have a small file – reference Ga
P7 – on Pierre PLANTARD, also known as ‘Pierre de
France’ or ‘Varrau de Verrestra’. This file, which
consists of some forty pages, describes in essence Pierre
PLANTARD's various activities during the German Occupation. In
this file the Association known as Alpha Galatès is only
fleetingly referred to.
Pierre PLANTARD seems to have been a young oddball, identifying
hypothetical ‘Judaeo-Masonic’ conspiracies at regular
intervals and repeatedly offering his services to the authorities
but without anyone taking the slightest notice of him. His
political clout was non-existent and his influence absolutely
zero.
It would seem that he spent his time creating more or less
fictitious movements with names like Rénovation Nationale
Française and Groupement catholique de la Jeunesse as well as
thinking up nebulous schemes such as L'épuration et la
rénovation de la France [‘Purification and renewal of
France’], publishing a few newsletters such as Rénovation
française and Vaincre (which were completely ignored) and
boasting about non-existent political friendships to make him
seem important.
The association Alpha Galatès is mentioned in this file in
connection with two reports dated 13 February 1944 [sic] and 6
June 1945 [sic], copies of which you will find enclosed.