It is now 2024 and the Adventure of the Rennes-le-Château Mythomaniacs continues anew! More exciting conspiracy theories need to be devised to keep the Spinning Wheel of Rennes-le-Château going – involving anything from conspiracies about Abbé Gélis to Flying Saucers – the Spinning Wheel of Rennes-le-Château is after all a perpetual motion machine.
If Noël Corbu, Pierre Plantard and Philippe de Chérisey during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s were an embarrassment, then today's lot are definite desperadoes trying to keep Rennes-le-Château on Life Support.
Since the demise and death of Pierre Plantard in 2000 (and the lack of interest in The Da Vinci Code), the only thing of note that has been discovered that can be described genuinely as “a new fact” is the location of the last resting-place of Abbé Henri Boudet (2009). Apart from that one solitary fact, there has been NOTHING.
Nothing but a continuous merry-go-round of conspiracy theories that never get anywhere because they are only products of the imagination. Abbé Bérenger Saunière, Abbé Henri Boudet, Abbé Antoine Gélis must all be turning in their graves in the way their lives have been caricatured by the mystery buffs.
There never was any “mystery” – the reason for Saunière's success in the selling of masses is easy to explain – and, like everything else – it can simply be explained by historical context. There is a READY ANSWER to it all. The trouble with the [ordinary] French is that they do not know the history of their own country. Saunière was not the only French priest to amass a vast amount of money. Take for example his Bishop, Monsignor Billard. I am sure that the scholars of the French Republic have been laughing literally non-stop since the whole fiasco began during the mid-1950s. The only reason that the whole thing is tolerated is because of the financial revenue generated from Tourism. There is a political reason behind the madness.
But the tourists that go on their pilgrimages to Rennes-le-Château are the very wrong type of people. The tourists that should be going on pilgrimages to Rennes-le-Château are the very ones found in St Peter’s Square in the Vatican City State. That's how bad this whole subject matter has become. Because Abbé Bérenger Saunière, Abbé Henri Boudet, Abbé Antoine Gélis – and many other priests in the area – were devout Roman Catholic Traditionalist Priests. Everything that stands out in their respective lives reflects that mundane fact.
Therefore, the direct equivalent of the village of Rennes-le-Château is St Peter's Square in the Vatican City State, and the sort of Tourists that would fit-in with the village of Rennes-le-Château would be devout Roman Catholics – not the mythomaniacs that have re-written histories to fit-in with their respective agendas (it is laughable to see how many of these conspiracy theories use basic elements from the Priory of Sion, like Plantard’s “parchments”, that he himself disowned in 1967).
Nobody is saying this “because they are Roman Catholics”. But merely because that happens to be the mundane fact.
