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			Pierre 
			Plantard Profile 
			from
			
			PrioryOfSion Website 
				
					
						
						
						Name:Pierre Athanase Marie Plantard
 
						
						Date of Birth:18 March 1920 (Paris)
 
						
						Parents:Pierre Plantard (a butler) and Amélie Marie Raulo (occasionally 
			worked as a cook for wealthy families).
 
						
						Education:Left school in 1937 failing to achieve above average education.
 
						
						Addresses between 1937-1943:22 Place Malesherbes (Paris 17); 10 Rue Lebouteux (Paris 17).
 
						
						First Job:Sexton for the Church of Saint-Louis d'Antin, Paris.
 
					  
					  
					Interests between 1937-1943Actively Anti-semitic and Anti-masonic in the guise of creating two 
			phantom associations: Renovation Nationale Française and Alpha 
			Galates; admirer of Field Marshal Pétain to whom he wrote a letter 
			on 16 December 1940 warning of a Jewish Masonic conspiracy – 
			resulting in various investigations being carried out on him by both 
			the French and German authorities – culminating in his being 
			sentenced to Fresnes prison for four months for setting-up the Alpha 
			Galates without being granted permission to do so by the 
			authorities.
   
				Edited a journal called Vaincre under the alias of 
			"Pierre de France" between 1942-1943, which included articles 
			allegedly written by various people – Le Comte Moncharville, Robert 
			Amadou, Dr Camille Savoire, etc – when in fact Pierre Plantard 
			solely wrote these. Quoting from a Report done by the French 
			Authorities dated 9 May 1941 and held at the Bureau of Associations 
			in the Paris Prefecture of Police:  
					
					"Plantard, who boasts of having 
			links with numerous politicians, seems to be one of those dotty, 
			pretentious young men who run more or less fictitious groups in an 
			effort to look important and who are taking advantage of the present 
			trend towards taking a greater interest in young people in order to 
			attract the Government's attention" (File Ga P7). 
				  
				  
				Interests 1956Having moved from Paris to the town of Annemasse in the southern 
			Haute Savoie region of France – Plantard formed, with André Bonhomme 
			– a small association called the Prieuré de Sion on 7 May 1956 (its 
			Registration Papers existing at the Sub-Prefecture of Saint 
			Julien-en-Genevois, and it was named after a small hill outside 
			Annemasse named Mont Sion) – devoted to the Defence and Liberty of 
			Low-Cost Housing and acting as a support group for the opposition 
			candidate at the local Council elections – the Prieuré de Sion 
			actively criticised and attacked the Annemasse property developers 
			in its journal, Circuit; its headquarters were based at Plantard’s 
			home in the street of Sous-Cassan.
   
				A Report dated 4 May 1954 on 
			Pierre Plantard reveals that he had moved to Annemasse by 1951 and 
			was "married and had a daughter aged about three". The Prieuré de 
			Sion terminated sometime after October 1956, following Plantard’s 
			conviction for ‘détournement de mineurs’ (reportedly serving a 12 
			month prison sentence between 1956-1957).
 
				  
				Interests 1958-1960
 The Fifth French Republic was formed in 1958 with General de Gaulle 
			being its President – Plantard formed a "Committee of Public Safety" 
			during this time which was reported about in three articles dated 6 
			June, 8-9 July and 29 July in the Le Monde Newspaper.
   
				Plantard 
			followed this by editing a second series of the journal Circuit, 
			subtitled The Cultural Periodical of the French Forces’ Federation – 
			it could be described as a reborn Vichyite journal containing 
			articles of a metaphysical nature resembling those that were written 
			by right-wing esoterics during the late 1800s. Plantard advertised 
			his psychic abilities in Circuit Number 9 (1960).
 
				  
				Interests: 1960-1985
 Revived the Prieuré de Sion and gave it a fictitious pedigree 
			(created by Godfrey de Bouillon during the Crusades); Plantard first 
			developed an interest in the story of Gisors as given by Roger 
			Lhomoy, before progressing into the story of Rennes-le-Château as 
			initially given by Noel Corbu, with whom he met and was greatly 
			impressed by. By 1964 Plantard created the novel claim about himself 
			that he was directly descended from the Merovingian king Dagobert II 
			– and the central purpose of being of this version of the Prieuré de 
			Sion was this very claim (Plantard was really descended from a 16th 
			century peasant who picked walnuts).
   
				Plantard also became acquainted 
			with Philippe de Chérisey and Gérard de Sède during this period of 
			time – the latter being an author who successfully managed to 
			transform Plantard’s creations/allegations into published books – 
			Plantard had previously failed to get any of his own manuscripts 
			published, which included one on Rennes-le-Château – this latter 
			manuscript became the book L’Or de Rennes that was re-written by 
			Gérard de Sède and published in 1967.    
				With the help of Philippe de Chérisey, Plantard began creating false stories about the priest 
			Bérenger Saunière at Rennes-le-Château and in particular creating 
				false pieces of evidence like "parchments", "gravestones", and 
				"genealogies" (click below image) – the "parchments" in 
			particular were created by Philippe de Chérisey and the book 
			contract to L’Or de Rennes reveals he was entitled to a share of the 
			book’s profits for producing the "parchments".  
				  
				  
					
					 
					  
					  
				A split between the 
			three occurred in 1967 when Gérard de Sède refused to split the book 
			royalties and Plantard and de Chérisey declared the "parchments" to 
			be forgeries (the book’s main attraction and major selling point). 
				 
				  
				The period between 1967-1985 represented one of producing more and 
			more false allegations and more and more forgeries – including a 
			List of Grand Masters that was plainly inspired by the AMORC list of 
			famous people that included the names of Leonardo da Vinci, Robert 
			Fludd, Botticelli, Valentin Andreae, etc.    
				Plantard’s activities from 
			this point on were plainly laughable but he managed to get away with 
			it simply because people chose to believe his stories – until a 
			conflict with the author and researcher Jean-Luc Chaumeil (who 
			discovered details about Plantard’s past and began publishing them) 
			– forced Plantard into quitting by "resigning" from the Prieuré de 
			Sion on 10 July 1984 – although the last Priory Document 
			representing this version of the Prieuré de Sion was deposited in 
			the Bibliothèque Nationale on 1 October 1985.  
				  
				A split also developed 
			between Pierre Plantard and Philippe de Chérisey when the latter 
			started collaborating with Paul Rouelle (involving a character named 
			the Marquis de B. who actually never existed).
 
				  
				Interests 1989-1993
 The ‘Saunière Museum’ was opened in Rennes-le-Château in 1989 and 
			this, it seems, inspired Plantard into making an unsuccessful 
			comeback (the French did not take any notice of this) – a third 
			version of the Prieuré de Sion was launched with a revived series of 
			the journal Vaincre – giving a different false pedigree and 
			different Grand Masters List and alleging that the previous version 
			was all a fake produced by Philippe Toscan du Plantier under the 
			influence of LSD – there was no connection with the Templars or with 
			Godfrey de Bouillon – the Prieuré de Sion was founded in 1681 at 
			Rennes-le-Château by the Grandfather of Marie de Negri d’Ables – and 
			there were secret archives discovered in Barcelona in Spain as well.
   
				Plantard was still descended from Dagobert II, but indirectly: the 
			‘real’ direct descendant was Otto Von Habsburg! The revised list of 
			Grand Masters contained the name of Roger Patrice Pelat whose name 
			was linked to a financial scandal that was being investigated by 
			Judge Thierry Jean-Pierre – the Judge interrogated Plantard who 
			under Oath admitted that everything was made-up. Plantard was 
			let-off with a severe warning and never again revived his Prieuré de 
			Sion activities, living out the rest of his life in seclusion in 
			various addresses at Perpignan, Paris and Barcelona. He died on 3 
			February 2000 in Paris and his remains were cremated.
 
				  
				Criminal Convictions
 
					
					
					Four months in Fresnes Prison during the 1940s.
					
					Six months between 1953-1954 for abuse of trust in relation to 
			offences against property.
					
					12 months between 1956-1957 for ‘détournement de mineurs’. 
			
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 Pierre Plantard’s Criminal Convictions
 from
			
			PrioryOfSion Website
 
 
			  
			A Chronology  
			It is well known that Pierre Plantard spent time in prison during 
			the 1940s and the 1950s – the evidence for this can be found in the 
			Prefectures of Police at Paris and Saint Julien-en-Genevois (where 
			the Priory of Sion was originally formed in 1956).
 
			  
			Recent written 
			enquiries to both of the Prefectures of Police have confirmed that Plantard spent time in prison during the 1940s and the 1950s – but 
			the nature of the French Privacy Law prohibits the precise details 
			of his convictions from becoming officially public – similar 
			prohibitive legal restrictions exist in other countries like 
			Switzerland and Germany.    
			In France, criminal convictions become 
			amnestied and so therefore any publicity of any person’s past crimes 
			automatically constitutes defamation there – which is why French 
			authors cannot refer to Plantard’s criminal convictions either in 
			their respective publications or on filmed television interviews.
 In countries like England the matter is straightforward – references 
			to anyone’s criminal convictions can be made public (either in 
			publications or on filmed television documentaries) without any 
			legal restrictions and the information is readily accessible at the 
			National Archives in Kew, Surrey.
 
 Pierre Plantard’s Judicial Records are kept at the Tribunal de 
			Grand 
			Instance de Thonon-les-Bains but cannot be opened without breaking 
			the French Privacy Law.
 
 Here is a Chronology, with references, of Pierre Plantard’s criminal 
			convictions:
 
				
				1940sPolice Report dated 13 February 1945 in the Paris Prefecture of 
			Police (part of File Ga P7) states that Pierre Plantard served 4 
			months in Fresnes prison for setting-up an association (the Alpha Galates) without being given permission to do so by the German 
			authorities. Pro-French Nationalistic organizations such as the 
			Alpha Galates (albeit only phantom in existence) were deemed to be 
			highly unpopular by the German occupiers of France, who deemed their 
			pedigree to be Aryan in nature and virulently opposed to the Gallic 
			French Tradition, which Plantard promoted during the Occupation.
 
 December 1953 – May 1954
 Pierre Plantard in prison (see entry for 1956).
 
 1954
 Police Report in the Paris Prefecture of Police dated 4 May 1954 
			(part of File Ga P7) states that Pierre Plantard had "requested the 
			issue of a 'certificate of confinement'" – Plantard had been 
			sentenced in December 1953 to six months’ imprisonment and following 
			his release appears hoping to use evidence of his imprisonment by 
			the Germans as part of a character reference. The Police Report 
			dated 4 May 1954 contains testimony from Plantard’s mother relating 
			to Plantard’s imprisonment in Fresnes prison by the Germans.
 
 June 1956
 Letter dated 8 June 1956 by the Mayor of Annemasse to the Sub 
			Prefect of St Julien-en-Genevois disclosed information that Pierre 
			Plantard had broken sections of the French Penal Code relating to 
			crimes and offences against property and was sentenced to six months 
			imprisonment by the Tribunal of St Julien-en-Genevois in December 
			1953.
   
				The Priory of Sion had been formed in May 1956 and was 
			originally dedicated to the defence of Low-Cost Housing, also 
			backing the opposition Candidate at the local Annemasse Council 
			elections – the Priory of Sion also attacked the Annemasse property 
			developers in the pages of its journal, Circuit. The letter dated 8 
			June 1956 by the Mayor of Annemasse was part of an investigation 
			into the Priory of Sion headed by the local Annemasse Council and 
			the Sub Prefecture of St Julien-en-Genevois into Pierre Plantard and 
			the first three issues of Circuit following the formation of the 
			Priory of Sion in May 1956.
 Three recent letters dated 22 March 2004, 20 April 2004 and 10 May 
			2004 from Monsieur Serge Champanhet, the Secretary General of the 
			Sub-Prefecture of St Julien-en-Genevois (4 Avenue de Geneve, 74164 
			Saint Julien-en-Genevois, Haute-Savoie), have both confirmed the 
			existence of the 1956 letter and Plantard’s conviction.
 
 October 1956
 The last issue of Circuit is dated October 1956 and nothing more of 
			the Priory of Sion in its manifestation of defending Low-Cost 
			Housing is heard of again after that date. The October 1956 edition 
			of Circuit was a "special edition" giving the details of the Priory 
			of Sion becoming involved with the local Church in transporting 
			local children by bus to nurseries and primary schools – details of 
			the local children’s addresses were to be deposited at Pierre 
			Plantard’s address in Annemasse.
 
 Unofficial sources testify that Pierre Plantard was sentenced to 12 
			months imprisonment between December 1956 and December 1957 for 
			breaking the French détournement de mineurs law (abuse of a minor).
 
 1972
 Two French investigators into Pierre Plantard – Jean-Luc Chaumeil 
			and "Pierre Jarnac" (Michel Vallet) – consult File KM 94550 at the 
			Sub Prefecture of St Julien-en-Genevois containing the 1956 Priory 
			of Sion Statutes and Registration Documents – and also see the 
			letter dated 8 June 1956 by the Mayor of Annemasse to the Sub 
			Prefect disclosing Plantard’s 1953 criminal conviction. Other French 
			researchers included Franck Marie and Gérard de Sède.
 
 mid-1970s
 BBC make three documentaries about Rennes-le-Château, with Roy 
			Davies, the Producer, asking to see a copy of the File relating to 
			Plantard’s criminal convictions (his request is contained in a 
			dossier of correspondence at the Sub Prefecture of St 
			Julien-en-Genevois).
 
 6 December 1983
 Pierre Plantard letter dated 6 December 1983 to Jean-Luc Chaumeil 
			alleged,
 
					
					"I have never been convicted either of fraud or of bouncing cheques or of corruption of a minor... I have no criminal record 
			...and no one can say otherwise." 
				Evidently Plantard was completely unaware of Jean-Luc Chaumeil’s 
			visit to the Sub Prefecture of St Julien-en-Genevois in 1972.
 1996
 BBC 2 ‘Timewatch’ documentary The History of a Mystery referred to 
			Pierre Plantard’s criminal convictions and where the reference was 
			to be found (visiting the Sub Prefecture in St Julien and seeing the 
			letter dated 8 June 1956 referring to Plantard’s criminal 
			conviction):
 
					
					"There's no evidence for a Priory of Sion until the 1950s; to find 
			it, you go to the little town of St-Julien. Under French Law every 
			new club or association must register itself with the Authorities, 
			and that's why there's a dossier here showing that a Priory of Sion 
			filed the proper forms in 1956. According to a founding member, this 
			eccentric association took its name not from Jerusalem, but from a 
			nearby mountain (Col du Mont Sion Alt. 786 m). The dossier also 
			notes that the Priory's self-styled Grand Master Pierre Plantard, 
			who is central to this story, has done time in jail." 
				2005 
					
					"De quel délit s’est donc rendu coupable Pierre Plantard, qui vient 
			d’être condamné, ce 17 décembre 1953, par le tribunal correctionel 
			de Saint-Julien-en-Genevois à six mois de prison ferme, pour abus de 
			confiance?" (page 83)
 "Les trois autres membres [Prieuré de Sion] identifiés 
			démissionnèrent l’année suivante (1957), et ce premier Prieuré de 
			Sion – car il y en aura d’autres – fut bien éphémère. À compter de 
			cette date nous perdons la trace de Pierre Plantard; de multiples 
			sources concordantes nous confirment qu’il purgea, entre octobre 
			1956 et 1957, une peine de prison d’un an pour détournement de 
			mineurs…." (page 98)
 
 - Jean Jacques Bedu
 
					Les Sources Secrètes du Da Vinci Code 
					(Éditions 
			du Rocher, March 2005) 
			
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 Pierre Plantard the Traditionalist Roman Catholic
 by Paul Smith
 from
			
			PrioryOfSion Website
 
 When the Priory of Sion was first formed in 1956 in the small French 
			town of Annemasse close to the Swiss town of Geneva it bore the 
			acronym CIRCUIT that stood for 'Chivalry of Catholic Rules and 
			Institution of Independent Traditionalist Union' – the Statutes of 
			the Priory of Sion resembled the earlier wartime Statutes of the 
			Alpha Galates: a phantom quasi-occult, pro-Vichy association that 
			Pierre Plantard formed in wartime France that was both anti-masonic 
			and anti-semitic.
 
 The 1956 version of the Priory of Sion terminated in the same year 
			that it was formed and had nothing to do with the Crusades, Godfrey 
			de Bouillon, Merovingians, the Knights Templar or with the village 
			of Rennes-le-Château – all these things became added when Pierre 
			Plantard formed a partnership with Gérard de Sède during the early 
			1960s and these elements represented a literary deal between the two 
			people as part of a book-selling agenda.
 
 Moving forward to 1967 and the creation of 'Les Dossiers Secrets 
			d'Henri Lobineau' as compiled by Philippe Toscan du Plantier and 
			deposited in the Bibliothèque Nationale in France – what 
			significance was there between Pope John XXIII and Jean Cocteau, the 
			fictional Grand Master of the fictional Priory of Sion?
 
 Interesting piece of mythmaking here by both Pierre Plantard and 
			Philippe de Chèrisey when creating 'Les Dossiers Secrets d'Henri 
			Lobineau' and the mythological pedigree of the Priory of Sion in 
			1967. Between 1918 and 1963 the fictional Grand Master of the 
			fictional Priory of Sion was Jean Cocteau – who also bore the title 
			of Jean XXIII. The Pope between the years 1958 – 1963 was Cardinal 
			Roncalli, who took the name of Pope John XXIII.
 
 More interesting facts – the Fifth French Republic commenced in 1958 
			and Plantard believed that the Age of Aquarius also commenced in 
			1958.
 
 Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council in 1962 – 
			whereby the Jews were exonorated from having any blame for the death 
			of Jesus Christ and the ceremony of the Mass in Latin was abolished.
 
 Was there a connection between Pope John XXIII and the fictional
			Priory of Sion?
 
			  
			Yes - one of resentment and bitterness – because Plantard and de Chèrisey did not link the name of Pope John XXIII 
			with their Priory of Sion, but those of Monsignor Marcel Lefebvre 
			and the Abbé Georges de Nantes – both of which were virulently 
			opposed to Vatican Two and both of which were excommunicated by 
			the 
			Vatican – Lefebvre was rumored to having been a fictional Grand 
			Master of the fictional Priory of Sion in the Priory Document 'Le Cercle d'Ulysse' (1977) and an article in 'Les Dossiers Secrets d'Henri Lobineau' claimed that 
			Serge Roux was in fact the Abbé 
			Georges de Nantes – the extreme Roman Catholic conservative priest 
			called the head of the 'Catholic Counter-Reformation Movement of the 
			Twentieth Century'. 
			  
			  
			 
			Abbé Georges de Nantes                    Monsignor Marcel Lefebvre
			 
			  
			So, this only demonstrates further what a Conservative Right Winger 
			Pierre Plantard was during the 1960s and 1970s, long after his 
			wartime Alpha Galates activities.
 
 The insertion of the name of 
			Jean Cocteau into the fictional Grand 
			Masters List of the fictional Priory of Sion was Philippe de Chèrisey's suggestion, on account of his interest in surrealism and 
			nothing else.
 
			  
			But there was no "Surrealist significance" to the 
			fictitious Priory of Sion from Plantard's position – the last mural 
			to be executed by Cocteau was left unfinished, and it featured 
			Godfrey de Bouillon – the fictitious founder of the fictitious 
			Priory of Sion. 
			  
			  
			 
			  
			  
			Most of the names found in the fictitious 
			List of Priory of Sion 
			Grand Masters (above image) originate from a document compiled by 
			Raymond Bernard 
			the former Grand Master of AMORC in France – and Plantard claimed to 
			have communicated with the spirit of Godfrey de Bouillon in seances.
 
			  
			
			Footnote
 
			Piers Compton once made the hilarious claim that Pope John XXIII was 
			a "Rosicrucian" (in his 1981 book 
			The Broken Cross: Hidden Hand In 
			The Vatican).
 
			  
			It just so happens that Pope John XXIII was 
			responsible for starting Vatican Council Two during the early 1960s 
			which introduced a revised version of Catholicism that many 
			Traditionalist Catholics loathed – the dropping of Latin during the 
			ceremony of the Mass was just one of the measures that became 
			introduced.
 Calling Pope John XXIII a "Rosicrucian" was just Piers Compton's way 
			of bad-mouthing the Pope. Compton did not know anything at all about Rosicrucianism. 
			Compton was in fact a former Catholic priest and the 
			Literary Editor of the Catholic Weekly 'The Universe' for 14 years.
 
 Equally the same thing can be said about Malachi Martin when he 
			claimed there was "Satanism" going on in the Vatican (in his 1991 
			book The Keys of This Blood) – this was just a case of another 
			Catholic disliking the Papacy for another reason: the political 
			stance some Popes were taking – all too much for those Catholics who 
			disagreed – and rhetorical statements like "Luciferan conspiracy" 
			soon became banded about.
 
 Pope John XXIII was not a "Rosicrucian" and there is no "Satanism" 
			going on in the Vatican. This is just a lot of hot air coming from 
			the Roman Catholic critics of the Papacy.
 
 
			
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			The Merovingian 
			Dynasty 
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			SATANIC BLOODLINE OF THE ANTICHRIST & FALSE 
PROPHET 
				
				  
				  
				PIERRE PLANTARD DE SAINT-CLAIR 
				There are compelling reasons for our 
  conviction that the Antichrist will come from the Plantard and Saint-Clair 
  bloodlines.  
				  
				Supporting evidence for this view will be presented throughout 
  this series, as well as information leading to discovery of the identity of 
  the False Prophet, a Merovingian as well.    
				The Messianic Legacy by 
				Baigent, Lincoln and 
  Leigh, Pierre Plantard de Saint-Claire joined the Prieuré de Sion on July 10, 
  1943 and, from 1963 to 1981, shared the position of Grand Master with Gaylord 
  Freeman, also of an Illuminati bloodline. (232:319;235-6)  
  According to Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Plantard de Saint-Claire was Grand 
  Master of the Prieuré de Sion from 1981 to 1984.  
					
					"A veritable secret society of 121 dignitaries, the 
    Prieuré de Sion, founded by Godfroi de Bouillon in Jerusalem in 1099, has 
    numbered among its Grand Masters Leonardo da Vinci, Victor Hugo and Jean 
    Cocteau. This Order convened its Convent at Blois on 17 
    January 1981...    
					As a result of this recent Convent at Blois,
					Pierre 
    Plantard de Saint-Claire was elected grand master of the Order... This 
    choice of grand master marks a decisive step in the evolution of the Order’s 
    conception and spirit in relation to the world; for the 121 dignitaries of 
    the Prieuré de Sion are all éminences grises of high finance and of 
    international political or philosophical societies; and Pierre Plantard is 
    the direct descendant, through Dagobert II, of the Merovingian kings. 
					   
					His 
    descent has been proved legally by the parchments of Queen Blanche of 
    Castile, discovered by the Abbe Sauniére in the church at Rennes-le-Château 
    (Aude) in 1891. These documents were sold by the priest’s niece in 1965 to 
    Captain Roland Stanmore and Sir Thomas Frazer, and were deposited in a 
    safe-deposit box of Lloyds Bank Europe Limited of London." (31:214-15) 
				It 
  seems that, following World War II, the Prieuré de Sion, and particularly 
  				Pierre Plantard, were intimately involved with the rise of 
				Charles De Gaulle 
  rise to the presidency of France.(232:318) 
  According to The Messianic Legacy,  
					
					"Under the German occupation 
  and the Vichy regime, secret societies, including freemasonry, had been 
  strictly banned and membership of any such organization was subject to severe 
  penalties."   
				Springmeier states: 
				 
					
					"It is hard for people to grasp that the Illuminati 
    controlled Russia, Great Britain, Germany and France during World War II, 
    but they did. Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin were all Masons. DeGaulle of 
    France was closely linked with several esoteric groups, and the Prieuré de 
    Sion and Grand Orient Masons helped him to power in the 50s... the people of 
    the world weren’t ready for a world government, and most not even a united 
    Europe. W.W. II was carried out to adjust people’s thinking toward wanting 
    European unity." (77:168) 
				Front organizations were formed to agitate for change, 
  and the Prieuré de Sion assisted in the military coup that overthrew the Vichy 
  government, clearing the way for DeGaulle. 
					
					    
  "Modelled on the Committees of Public Safety during the French 
  Revolution...the Committees [of Public Safety] began to agitate for a strong 
  guiding hand in France which would be sympathetic to their cause. Only one 
  person was deemed capable of providing such a hand - Charles de Gaulle. Thus 
  the Committees of Algeria began to press insistently for De Gaulle to assume 
  power in France, if necessary by means of a military coup.    
					They received 
  support from a number of high-ranking military men, including Marshal Alphonse Juin, who is alleged to have been an important member of the Prieuré de Sion. They also received 
  support from a coalescing pro-Gaullist movement in France... whose leaders 
  included Michel Debre - who became De Gaulle’s Minister of Justice and, shortly 
  after, between 1959 and 1962, Prime Minister of France. Another important 
  pro-Gaullist figure was Geoges Bidault... Between 1945 and 1954, Bidault had 
  worked closely with Robert Schuman... in drawing up plans for the EEC..." (232:330) 
				After De Gaulle was installed as President, however, he granted Algeria 
  independence from France, which weakened France as an imperial power. 
  Therefore, DeGaulle appointed Pierre Plantard secretary of a national ’Movement’ for the defense of liberty to succeed the Committees. As "minister 
  of propaganda," Plantard proceeded to dismantle and thereby defuse the 
  Committees of Public Safety which might turn against DeGaulle.  
				The 
  announcement was published by Plantard’s first wife, Anne Lea Hisler: 
					
					    
  "When we first met M. Plantard in 1979, he told us that Charles de Gaulle had 
  personally requested him to direct the French Committees of Public Safety and, 
  when their task of installing the General in power had been completed, to 
  preside over their dissolution. In a mimeographed pamphlet deposited with the 
  Bibliothèque Nationale in 1964, Anne Lea Hisler - M. Plantard’s first 
  wife - states: 
					    
  "Under the authority of Marshal Alphonse Juin, the seat of the 
  Secretariat-General of the Committees of Public Safety in metropolitan France 
  was at Aulnay-sous-Bois [Paris suburb]. This Committee was directed by Michel 
  Debré, Pierre Plantard known 
  as Way, and André Malraux...a 
  member of the Prieure de Sion." 
					(232:333,256) 
				Anne Lea 
Hisler, Plantard’s wife, worked with her husband on the magazine of the Prieuré 
de Sion, CIRCUIT, an acronym for "Chivalry of Catholic Rules and Institutions of 
the Independent and Traditionalist Union."   
					
					"...the 
  Prieuré de Sion was using its magazine for something other than its own 
  internal business.   
					    "The 1959 series of 
  Circuit [contained] articles by Anne Lea Hisler and others, including 
  Pierre Plantard, sometimes writing under his own name, sometimes under the 
  pseudonym of ’Chyren’." 
					(232:339-40) 
				The name 
"Hisler" happens to be an adaptation of "Hitler." The Decatur Daily reported in 
2002,  
					
					"Fifty-seven years after his death, Hitler’s name still has shock 
value, which may explain why so many people named Hitler - both in the United 
States and abroad - had their names legally changed during World War II. (I know 
a man named Hisler whose family name was spelled with a ’t’ instead of an ’s’ 60 
years ago.) (1055) 
				The prophecies of Nostradamus included 
"...a number of detailed prophecies concerning Hitler (whom he calls Hisler), 
naming him as the ’second antiChrist’." 
 
				Was Anne Lea Hisler really 
Anne Lea Hitler?  Is 
it possible that the wife of Pierre Plantard de Saint-Claire was related to the 
infamous Adolf Hitler?    
				
				
				The Templar 
Revelation confirms other reports of that Pierre Plantard de Saint-Claire at 
least had Nazi sympathies:  
					- which was markedly 
  uncritical of the Nazi oppressors, and which was actually published with their 
  approval.
					"Born in 1920, he 
  first came to public notice in the Occupied France of 1942 as the editor of a 
  journal called Vaincre pour une Jeune cehvalerie (Conquest for a 
  Young Knighthood)   
					
					This was officially the organ of the Order Alpha Galates, a 
  quasi-Masonic and chivalric society, based in Paris, of which Plantard became 
  the Grand Master at the age of just twenty-two...Vaincre 
					is now [1998] the title of the Priory’s 
  internal bulletin, which Pierre de Saint-Clair edits with his son 
  Thomas." (242:43) 
				
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				THOMAS PLANTARD DE SAINT-CLAIR 
				The Grand Master of the Prieuré de Sion since 1989 has 
  been Thomas Plantard de Saint-Clair. According to Holy Blood, Holy Grail, 
  				Thomas is the son of the former Grand Master, the late Pierre Plantard de 
  Saint-Clair.  
				  
				The  following announcement of Thomas’ election as Grand 
  Master was published in the internal bulletin of the Prieuré de Sion in 1989, 
  and only recently posted on the Internet.  
				  
				  
	
		
			| Vaincre No. 3, September 1989, page 
            1  
			Managing 
            Editor: Thomas Plantard de Saint-Clair  110 Rue Henri 
            Dunant, 92700 COLOMBES    
			 THOMAS 
            PLANTARD de Saint-Clair  becomes 
            Grandmaster of the PRIORY OF SION    By virtue of Article XIV OF THE CONSTITUTIONS 
          OF THE PRIORY OF SION: "their titles shall fall as of right to one of 
          their children to be designated by them without consideration of sex."
			   By virtue of article XVI "the various duties 
          and titles of Grandmaster of the Priory of Sion shall be transmissible 
          to their successor according to the same prerogatives."   By act dated 6 JULY 1989, Pierre PLANTARD de 
          SAINT-CLAIR, the present Grandmaster, informed the 121 Masters that, 
          in view of the favourable response of 107 votes in favour, 5 
          abstentions and 9 votes against accepting the proposed succession of 
          title and prerogative, ratification had been made on 6 AUGUST 1989 in 
          PARIS, at 10 o’clock solar time, and that THOMAS PLANTARD de 
          Saint-Clair had been proclaimed Grandmaster. Information has been sent 
          to all members of the ORDER. -
			
			836:1 |      
				
				Merovingian sources collectively point to the 
  Plantards and Saint-Clairs as the bloodlines that will produce the Grail King, 
  the divine ruler, at once god and king, who will bring 
  mankind into a utopian age of peace and prosperity.  
				One piece of evidence for this choice is found in a 
  recent best-seller, The Da Vinci Code:  
					
					"Only two direct lines of Merovingians remain. Their family names are Plantard and Saint-Clair. Both 
  families live in hiding, probably protected by the Priory." -
					
					935:260 
				According to Marjorie Reeves’ Joachim of Fiore and the Prophetic Future, a second 
  Charlemagne will arise whose surname begins with ’P’.  
					
					"It was a Burgundian World Emperor that 
    [Johann] Lichtenberger expected to arise as a Second Charlemagne. His hint 
    as to who this will be is quite plain: ’And it is said in the book of the 
    kings of the Franks that from the stock of King Charles of France 
    [Charlemagne] will arise in the last days an Emperor, ’nomine P.’, who will 
    be the monarch of all Europe and reform Church and clergy. After him there 
    shall be no ruler.’" -
					
					823:110-111 
				E. W. Bullinger wrote in The Witness of the 
  Stars, after which recent pseudo-Christian books have been patterned: 
				 
					
					"The 
  day has here come to fulfill the prophecies concerning Him who is ’the 
  Branch,’ ’the Branch of Jehovah,’ ’the man whose name is the 
  Branch.’"- 
					939 
				The Prieuré de Sion was formed and has been 
  directed by individuals related to the Saint-Clair bloodline. In Great 
  Britain, the surname of this so-called sacred lineage is Sinclair. 
  				 
				According to at least two Masonic sources, the Saint-Clairs are 
				Grand Masters of 
  Freemasonry by right of birth and they 
  have historically controlled the Prieuré de Sion. 
					
					"Through marriage the family of Marie Levis 
    St. Clair was connected to the de Gisors, the family from which the first 
    and third grand masters of the Prieuré de Sion came. Without question, 
    Prieuré de Sion was created and run by individuals related to the St. 
    Clairs. The third grand master was in charge in the year that the Templars 
    were ordered arrested and the treasure fleet set sail for Scotland to escape 
    the agents of the French king. Did one St. Clair (from France) correspond 
    with another Sinclair (from Scotland) for this express purpose?  Most 
    likely the answer is yes." (Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar) 
    - 
					281:178  
					"Their domain [the Sinclair 
    family - Scottish branch of the Norman Saint-Clair Gisors 
    family] at Rosslyn was only a few miles from the former Scottish 
    headquarters of the Knights Templar, and the chapel at Rosslyn - built 
    between 1446 and 1486 - has long been associated with 
    both Freemasonry and the Rose-Croix. In a charter believed to date from 
    1601, moreover, the Sinclairs are recognized as ’hereditary’ grand masters 
    of Scottish Masonry.’ This is the earliest specifically Masonic document on 
    record. According to Masonic sources, however, the hereditary grand 
    mastership was conferred on the Sinclairs by James II, who ruled between 
					1437 and 1460 - the age of René d’Anjou." (Holy 
    Blood, Holy Grail) - 
					
					31:183  
				In 
  addition to conditioning the masses to believe their New Age 
  propaganda, another objective of best-selling New Age books such as Holy 
  Blood, Holy Grail is to covertly communicate secret information from the Prieuré de Sion to a specific audience 
				- the global network of secret societies 
  and New Age cults, all of which eagerly await the end of the Age of Pisces and 
  the beginning of the Age of Aquarius.    
				At that point in time, the much despised 
  Church Age will come to a close and Lucifer, in the person of the Antichrist, 
  will reign over a Golden Age, having destroyed the Harlot Church which no 
  longer serves his purposes.   
				In Holy Blood, Holy Grail, there is a 
  childhood photo of Thomas Plantard de Saint-Clair seated on the lap of 
				Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair.  
				  
				  
     
				
				This peculiar photograph of 
	Thomas Plantard, seated on the lap of Pierre, is conveying an esoteric message to the 
  occultist.  
				  
				Please take note of the pose, Thomas sitting on the lap of 
  Pierre.  Below are some photographs of famous Black Virgins, also 
  called  Black Madonnas.     
				Note the striking similarity of the poses of 
  Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair with Thomas and the Black Virgins with their 
  sons who were child gods.  
				  
				Notice also the masculine appearance of the ’Madonnas’ and the placement of their sons between their legs: 
				  
		 
				  
				  
	
		
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      Notre-Dame de Marsat 
       
      Marsat Puy-de-Dôme, 
      France | "Our 
		ancient, battered, much-loved, little-understood Black Virgins are a 
		still-living archetypal image that lies at the heart of our civilization 
		and has a message for us.... The light of nature tells us that life is a 
		pilgrimage, a journey to the stars along the Milky Way, her hero-path, a 
		voyage across the great water in which she is the ship, rudder, and 
		guiding star.        "There is clearly no return to 
        the twelfth century, the third century or the third millennium BC. 
        Inanna, Sophia, the Holy Grail and the Church of Amor [Catharism] 
        are no longer available as living realities for us today. There are 
        signs that the goddess now requires to be worshipped in spirit and in 
        truth through the law written in our hearts, rather than in temples 
        built with hands. One old truth is that man and woman, though different, 
        are equal parts of a consciously androgynous whole that is each 
        person’s potential reality. Many people, shown photographs of the 
        Black Virgin for the first time, comment on how
		masculine some of them look." (Ean Begg, The Cult of the 
        Black Virgin) - 
		
		272:13,134 |  
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      Notre Dame de 
      Clermont   
       
      Clermont-Ferrand, 
      Puy-de-Dome, France | 
      
       
		Notre Dame 
      de Laval (Loire) France 
		Brought 
      back from Crusades by St. Louis |  
			| 
			Notre Dame de Meymac, also known as the Black 
        Madonna of Meymac is believed to have been carved sometime during the 
        11th century.  
			  
			The Black Virgin has very large hands and a red cloak; and 
        has been called one of the strangest and most interesting Black Madonnas 
        to date.  
			  
			The Child is dressed in red with bare feet, and sits between 
        the Madonna’s knees, holding a closed book in his left hand.   
			This Black Virgin was once part of the 11th 
        century treasure of Benedictine priory of Saint Andrew, originally a 
        hermitage in and during the Merovingian Dynasty...   
			This is one of the Madonnas of the Fisher 
        Kings, the Merovingian line of Mystic Kings, keepers of the Grail 
        Bloodline.   
			Black Madonnas are believed to be pre-Christian 
        archetypes whose child-nurturing focus is the embodiment of the 
        pre-historic Great Mother.
 
			A very powerful 
        and important Madonna, She regally sits an impressive 8.5 inches tall. 
        This gothic style icon is found in the French village of Correze.-
			
			925   | 
      
       
      Notre Dame de Meymac 
      Meymac, 
      Correze, France |  
			| 
		"Whoever the enigmatic Black Virgin may be, she holds a powerful 
		attraction for her millions of devotees around the world.  Her sacred sites stand on highly 
      charged earth energy centers, enhanced by megalithic ley-lines and sacred 
      architecture.    
		
		          "From ancient 
      times to present, people have undertaken pilgrimages to her shrines as a 
      way to explore her mysteries and to enable her to do her miraculous work 
      of healing, transformation and inspiration.  France has more than 300 
      
		Black Virgin sites, with over 150 Black Virgins still in 
      existence." |  
			| 
      
      		
       
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			Notre-Dame de MontserratLa Moreneta * Montserrat 
        Katalonien, Spain
 
			  
			"Beyond general style, the genre of the statue is 
        certainly that of an ’enthroned virgin’, typical of the earliest icons 
        of Mary. On behalf of Madonna and Child representations, Stephen Benko 
        notes: It is well known that the iconography of Isis and [her son] Horus 
        was basically adopted by Christians when they started to portray Mary 
        and Jesus as Mother and Child.’ Benko adds that Isis was sometimes ’pictured as black’... the Montserrat figures [and] over 1,000 of the 
        world’s better known Madonnas are black... 
			  
			"...Montserrat is located in Spain, not in France 
        where St. 
        Bernard of Clairvaux (the nephew of one of the original nine Knight 
        Templars) and others produced well-known commentaries on the Canticles. 
        Perhaps the image was created black to represent some esoteric religious 
        symbolism. Ean Begg notes that the Shrine of Montserrat is among the 
        best candidates for former sanctuaries for the Holy Grail. Further, 
        in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries esoteric Christian sects 
        proliferated, though not primarily in Spain." - 
			
			925 |      
	42:62Will Thomas Plantard de Saint-Clair be 
  revealed as the reincarnation of Horus, i.e. Nimrod, who will at last unite 
  the world under Lucifer?   Recall that the myth of Horus is a distortion 
  of the Genesis account of God’s judgment on the Tower of Babel. (Gen. 10 and 
  11)  Not happy with this arrangement, New Agers anticipate the return of Horus 
  as the reincarnation of Nimrod who will finally unite mankind in a glorious 
  revolution which dethrones God.  
		"Like the goddess Isis, who found and 
    restored all of the lost pieces of her husband, Osiris, many are restoring 
    the unity of all life, bringing together the separate parts of 
    humanity - different races, religions and cultures." - 
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