Pierre Plantard made an attempted comeback in
1989 following his resignation from the Priory of Sion in 1984,
the details of which were outlined in three 1989 issues of Vaincre
- dated April, June and September of that year.
The comeback involved revising the whole
structure of the myth of the Priory of Sion - creating a whole
new system of belief with a brand new agenda - the old material
as contained in the previous Priory Documents was discarded and
rejected with Philippe Toscan, the author of the Dossiers
Secrets being lampooned as a sad individual who had written
his works under the influence of LSD and was arrested on 11 April
1967 for that! Indeed, the works of Mathieu Paoli, Henry Lincoln,
Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh were criticised as products of "the
imagination and the novel". The parchments were no
longer genuine - again - but the fabrications of Philippe de Chérisey.
Genuine parchments "did exist", but they were
inaccessible.
So, Plantard came storming back to a completely
disinterested French Public having regained his position as the
Grand Master of the Priory of Sion at the "Convent of
Avignon" on 9 March 1989 following the death of the previous
Grand Master, Patrice Pelat.
Pierre Plantard lifted the claim made by Gérard
de Sède in his 1988 book, Rennes-le-Chateau - Le Dossier, Les
Impostures, Les Phantasmes, Les Hypotheses about Georges
Monti having been the "founder" of the Alpha Galates in
1934. Plantard also used the claim made by Philippe de Cherisey
in his letter dated 17 January 1985 that his sentence at Fresnes
Prison in 1942 was due to his "obtaining false papers for
the Jews". Plantard repeated that he had "worked for
the French Resistance" and this time had even provided the
name that he had used in this capacity: 'Capitaine Double Mètre'.
He also repeated his previous claim that he was introduced to the
Priory of Sion by the Abbé François Ducaud-Bourget in 1943 -
this Priory Dogma was NOT altered.
Brand New Fantasies had supplanted the old
fantasies - and the whole structure of the myth involving the
foundation of the Priory of Sion had to be altered as well.
According to this new version, the foundation of the Priory of
Sion was only inspired by the spirit of Godfrey de Bouillon (but
also linked to the Compagnie du Saint Sacrament and to the
Enfants de Saint Vincent), and the preferred belief of the
membership was that it was founded on 17 January 1681 at Rennes-le-Château.
There was no proof to substantiate this belief however, and the
earliest date that could be produced with "proof" of
the Priory's foundation was 19 September 1738 (19 September being
the Feast date of St JANVIER) - through the actions of François
d'Hautpoul and Jean de Nègre - the evidence coming from the
archives of Monsieur de Saint-Hillier (who came from the Château
du Lys), the great uncle of Philippe de Chérisey. The September
1989 issue of Vaincre was to provide the conclusive
evidence to settle this issue – the archives of the Priory
of Sion were discovered in Barcelona – the Priory of Sion
had indeed been founded on 17 January 1681 in Rennes-le-Château,
confirmed by the documents of the Enfants de Saint Vincent as
found beneath a commanderie (but the Priory was not connected
with the Knights Templar) - its founder was Jean-Timoleon Negri
d'Ables, with the later participation of Blaise d'Hautpoul (1694
onwards), and the Abbé André-Hercule de Fleury (1743 onwards).
These archives were to be reproduced onto microfilm and intended
to be published in later issues of Vaincre.
But this was not all - a certain Angélique
Lenoir (who had married Jean-Marie-Alexanre d'Hautpoul in 1781)
had also possessed important archives relating to the Priory of
Sion: where were they?
And what was the secret of the new
revised Priory of Sion? It was
‘Rocco Negro
’ – the
Black Rock situated close to the summit of the Château de
Blanchefort that contained an "immense energy" –
referred to by a past member of the Priory of Sion, Auguste de
Labouisse-Rochefort, who was a close friend of Victor Hugo (who
had drafted the Constitutions of the Priory of Sion on July 14th,
1870).
As if all of this was not enough, it was also
claimed that Pierre Plantard was co-author, with René
Descadeillas, of the book Rennes et ses derniers Seigneurs,
having 65% of the rights to that work.