Like a Carousel Wheel the Rennes-le-Château game continues turning round and round – people keep making-up stories, then calling them “myths”, then asking some more questions, then finding more and more “significance”. But they never find the ultimate answer. That would only spoil the game.

Remember the “dalle de Coume-Sourde” that was published in Gérard de Sède's book, “L'Or de Rennes”?

It looked like this:

But that was not how it looked originally. It first appeared in “Plaisir de France” (Number 298, 1963) like this:

The caption reads as follows: “Pierre de Coumesourde, another possible key to the treasure. The text is restored from memory; you would need to know the exact wording.”

We have since discovered that the image of the “dalle” in Gérard de Sède's book was really by Philippe de Chérisey, inspired by The Shield of Trinity, but with the Latin changed.

Round-and-round the hamster wheel keeps spinning and spinning and nothing can stop it. It is sheer perpetual motion. Imagine all the people that have travelled from all over France since the mid-1950s with metal detectors searching for treasure in Rennes-le-Château, most of them anonymous and unknown. Luc and Yvon Ribeyrol were surely too late in April and June 2023. Some 68 years too late!

Below, from the same issue of “Plaisir de France” – From Left to Right, Mrs Y. Charroux, Noël Corbu and Denise Carvenne, from the Researchers’ Club. They originally started The Game.