Paul Smith has achieved fame as the arch debunker of the
Rennes le Chateau mystery.
He now spends so much time on this that debunking this
mystery has clearly become a nice little earner for him.
Paul Smith refuses to enter into debate with me. In short
- I terrify him.
Every time I e-mail him pointing out his numerous
anomalies, his response is to immediately change the subject, call me a Plantard
junkie and ban my mail address.
He is the principle motivation for me constructing this
website. Here his every argument is blown apart.
I hope that eventually this website will become so in his
face that he will be forced into an open debate instead of his normal practice
of sniping from a distance.
Henry Lincoln has challenged Paul Smith to a TV debate
several times, Smith has refused on every occasion.
That tells a story about the validity of Mr Paul Smith.
Robin Crookshank Hilton – Peddling Plantard Today -
A character assassination by Smith with no
substance whatsoever. Not worth reading as it contains no facts and no proofs
just a tirade of opinions and obfuscations.
This author is still reading
this book and will give a comment later.
Couple of interesting statements though.
We are now able to officially state that the PRIORY OF
SION has no direct or indirect connection with the ORDER OF THE TEMPLE, and
that all this fantastic succession of Grand-Masters that authors such as
Philippe TOSCAN, Mathieu PAOLI, Henry LINCOLN, Michael BAIGENT, Richard LEIGH,
etc. have attributed to it derive merely from people’s imaginations and the
realm of fantasy" (in an article entitled Some Archives Of The ‘Priory
Of Sion’ Discovered In Barcelona… by "Ursanne").
We are now able to officially state So presumably at some stage before
they weren't able to officially state.
This I presume comes from the interview by Gino Sandri (Link
here) 'methinks they protest too much' here.
The people in question are Andre Chénier
and the Abbé Delille who have done far more research than the likes of Smith
could only dream about it.
"realm of fantasy" Thanks for the opinion we'll
let you know.
Tony Robinson: Do we have any evidence that there was a child?
Michael Baigent: There's none whatsoever – that’s purely hypothesis on our part – but I
think it's a plausible hypothesis - that the Holy Grail is the bloodline of
David – and if Jesus and Mary Magdalene had been married and she was pregnant
with this child – "yes, she would have carried the Grail to France" – and I
think this is the way that we need to look at this material – Is it true? I
don't know – Is it plausible? Yes.
Tony Robinson: So the inspiration for 'The Da Vinci Code' and a whole Canon of secret
Grail Hunts is no more than a Big Guess...
Ah the Channel 4 programme 'The real Da Vinci Code', we rip
that programme apart here.
So do you have any independent evidence that there was ever
a Jesus? Never mind a child of Jesus?
No Flavius Josephus mentions
CHRIST
in “Jewish Antiquities”, Book 18, Chapter 3, Paragraph 3 and
Christ means anointed one and
there were thousands of these in the first century CE. He mentions Judas
though, now that's topical.
I've had some who say that their version of Josephus
says Jesus so my question to those people who have their own
SPECIAL copy is:
As there are TWO Jesus' mentioned in the New Testament
Colossians 4:11, to which one is Josephus
referring?
What an absolute plonker you are Robinson.
Live-glass-stones-people-houses-throw-shouldn't. If you ask for evidence of a
child don't assume the moral high ground until you've first established
independent proof of the existence of Jesus.
"through their promotion of distorted allegations based
upon proven discredited material"
Which proven discredited material would that
be? Lets debate it. Oh I forgot you don't do debates.
"During the late 1980s Geoffrey Basil Smith informed me
that he destroyed his Priory of Sion archive when I enquired about the
correspondence he received from Philippe de Chérisey – Picknett and Prince in
turn claim that Geoffrey Basil Smith showed this material to them in 1999 and
yet Geoffrey Basil Smith cannot prove their allegations to be correct because he
recently informed me that these letters "mysteriously vanished". This is fact."
So what was in this correspondence, are you
going to tell us Smith? Or does it damage your case?
"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."
Proof Please. Stop making the story up and
defend yourself with proof. Your bluff has been called.
Plantard stated in the meeting in Chaumiel
mother's Art galley with Lincoln and the BBC that
Philippe de Chèrisey had made a copy. But it only
deals with one parchment (the Dagobert one) and there were two remember. The bad
news for you Smith is that
Philippe de Chèrisey could
not possibly have written the second (Poussin) parchment and I have proven it
here. Chaumiel is lying. Lincoln stated in 'The key to the Sacred Pattern' that
de Cherisey had been making notes on the solution and promised to show Henry
Lincoln, but he died before he had seen them. Is this what Chaumiel has?
"The version of the "Priory of Sion" involving Godfrey de
Bouillon, the Knights Templars and the Merovingians was a figment of Pierre
Plantard’s imagination dating from the early 1960s when he first met Gérard de
Sède and began collaborating with him on the Gisors story, that was first begun
by Roger Lhomoy (Lhomoy was Gérard de Sède’s pig-farmer at the time). This
romantic fabrication was concocted by Plantard at that time in order to make
money and nothing else – no "hidden esoteric secrets" were involved. The
Rennes-le-Château "connection" was introduced sometime later."
So what was that foremost expert on the
Crusades Rene Grousset referring to in 1934 when he spoke about a "Royal
Tradition" that ensured Baudouin I younger brother of Godfroi de Bouillon would
become King of Jerusalem and would be equal to the Kings of Europe? This has
nothing to do with the Priory of Sion documents, this is from a very respected
historian.
"As far as the pool is concerned I can only tell you not to
pay too much attention to Henry’s gobbledegook! – for it seems to me that’s what
all that business about ‘underlying geometry’ is! In fact, when Henry used all
his maps there was nothing at the absolute centre of the Pentagram he drew on
the map. The pool was hundreds of yards (if I remember correctly) away from the
centre which fell on a scree slope. The pool itself is in a farmer’s field near
a secondary road and the old man in a nearby house told us it was a pool used by
the local women to wash their clothes before piped water. The trees provided a
screen to stop the water evaporating in the hot summer sun."
Well as Mandy Rice Davis ( a Prostitute
in the Profumo affair) once said " They would say that wouldn't they". You
telling me that they made it in the middle of the field so they could do their
washing? With no path to it? Surrounded it by trees so it wouldn't evaporate?
And they constructed it specifically for that purpose? So if it evaporates then
it's no good for drinking after they've washed in it as it clearly isn't fed
from a source. So what did they use for drinking water?
I've got your number now. By the way Barbara
Thiering has used nothing from the Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. She's a Doctor
of Theology of more than thirty years experience. A little difficult to argue
against N'est-ce Pas?
Timewatch: The History of a Mystery BBC 2 (InVision Productions), 17 September 1996
Written and Directed by William Cran Character
assassination of Paul Schellenberger and Richard Andrews authors of 'The
Tomb of God'. Interview hijack and ambush.
In Search of History: The Holy Grail The History Channel (FilmRoos, Inc; A & E Television Networks), December
1997
Executive Producer Bram Roos
Produced by Truusje Rushner
In Search of The Holy Grail The Learning Channel/Discovery Communications/New York Times (Bluebrook
Films), 18 February 2003
Produced and Directed by Bruce Burgess
Legend Hunters: The Holy Grail - the real story (Pilot Episode) Discovery: Travel Channel US (Partners In Motion), 11 April 2003
Producer: Paul Compton
Executive Producer: Ron Goetz
Jesus, Mary and Da Vinci ABC News Productions, 3 November 2003
Directed by Rudy Bednar, Presented and Written by Elizabeth Vargas
Investigating History: The Holy Grail The History Channel (Kurtis Productions Ltd), 26 April 2004
Produced by Sharon Barrett, Presented by Bill Kurtis
Featured Michael Baigent; Professor Malcolm Barber; Dr Robert Eisenman; Dr
Barbara Frale; uncredited contribution from an individual who claimed that
Flying Saucers visited the village of Rennes-le-Château. Jean Luc Chaumeil
believes Aliens are running this planet. He wrote a book about them.
Behind The Mysteries: Unlocking Da Vinci's Code - The Full Story
(updated version of the ABC documentary above) The National Geographic Channel (ABC News Productions), 19 December 2004
Produced by Jean Marie Condon and Yael Lavie, Presented and Written by Elizabeth
Vargas
Beyond The Da Vinci Code The History Channel (Weller/Grossman Productions in association with Paulist
Productions), 16 January 2005
Directed by Will Ehbrecht
The Real Da Vinci Code Channel Four Television (Wildfire Television), 3 February 2005
Produced by Simon Raikes, Presented by Tony Robinson Although the theme of
this partially concerned the feminine looking figure in Da Vinci's Last Supper
(with no chalice) they skilfully side stepped the fact that there's a similar
set of four stained glass windows in Hodnet Church near to Shugborough Hall
featuring a female looking John holding a chalice. Even though the TV team had
actually visited there. Clearly they had an agenda to fulfil.
Conspiracies On Trial: The Da Vinci Code The Discovery Channel (Outline Productions), 10 April 2005
Directed by Harry Beney
Secrets To The Code Dateline: NBC (NBC Universal, Inc), 13 April 2005
Broadcast Producer Elizabeth Cole, Presented by Stone Phillips
The Grail Trail: In Pursuit of The Da Vinci Code ITV (Granada), 26 September 2005
Produced and Directed by Matt Cain
Executive Producer: Gillian Greenwood
Narrated by Caroline Quentin
Da Vinci Declassified The Learning Channel (Beantown Productions, Discovery Communications, Inc),
3 November 2005
Executive Producers: David Carr; David Comtois
Producer, Frankie Glass
Revealed... The Da Vinci Code Myth Channel Five (Weller/Grossman Productions; Love Productions), 29 November
2005
Director/Senior Editor Will Ehbrecht
Narrated by Mark Halliley
Legend Detectives: The Mystery of Rennes-le-Château Discovery Channel (IPM TV Ltd), 9 December 2005
Produced and Directed by Michael Hutchinson
Opus Dei & The Da Vinci Code Channel Four Television (CTVC), 12 December 2005
Produced and Directed by Jeremy Jeffs
Written and Presented by Mark Dowd
Terra X: Geheimakte Sakrileg – Der Mythos von Rennes-le-Château ZDF (ifage-Filmproduktion GmbH), 15 January 2006
Directed by Georg Graffe
The Da Vinci Code – Bloodlines ("Digging for the Truth" series) The History Channel (JWM Productions, LLC), 27 March 2006
Hosted by Josh Bernstein
Directed and Written by Brian Leckey
Featured Alice Jouve, Tuvia Fogel, Timothy Wallace-Murphy, Professor
Jean-Jacques Cassiman, Daniel Perrier, Kent Dobson, Archbishop Malki Murad
* This documentary did a DNA testing on the remains of a 1,400 year-old
Merovingian Queen (Aregund, the wife of Clothar I), which failed to produce any
near-Eastern origin.
That's probably because
it was CLOTHAR 1 (LOTHAR 1) who was the son of Clovis 1 who was from the
Meroveus bloodline (Grandson) and Clothilde of Burgundy who wasn't. Aregund? She
just married into the family and wasn't bloodline at all.
You checked the wrong
one [FX sound of donkey braying.] One set of donkey ears coming right up..
Da Vinci's Code ("Is It Real?" series) National Geographic Television & Film, 24 April 2006
Produced by Amy Doyle
The Secret of the Priory of Sion CBS News '60 Minutes' (CBS Worldwide Inc.), 30 April 2006
Presented by CBS Correspondent Ed Bradley
Produced By Jeanne Langley
The Da Vinci Code – The Greatest Story Ever Sold (‘Time Shift’ series) BBC Four (BBC Bristol), 1 May 2006
Directed by Matthew Pelly; Producer Georgina Harvey
Narrated by Michael Pennington
* Quoting David Aaronovitch: "I am older than the Priory of Sion", and
"One of the things I think is interesting about this, is the way in which the
authors of The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail have never, as far as I know,
turned round to the rest of the world, and said, ‘It was a load of rubbish.
[That's probably because it isn't] Terribly sorry and all that. We are not
going to give the money back cos we’ve spent it all and we did do quite a lot of
work and we were hoaxed too, but actually, it’s all complete and utter tosh’."
Thanks for the opinion Dave
we'll let you know
* Quoting Jonathan Riley-Smith: "What Holy Blood, Holy Grail, did, was to
dismiss reputable evidence which didn’t go with its theories. Accept
disreputable evidence and fill in the gaps where there was no evidence at all." [For instance? Wanna
debate it? Oh I forgot you people don't do debates] WE DO SEE
HERE
ARE YOU UP FOR IT?
Revealed... The Man Behind The Da Vinci Code Channel Five Television (Diverse Productions Ltd), 10 May 2006
Produced and Directed by Ian Bremner
Narrated by John Shrapnel
Featured Henry Lincoln, Professor Brian Ford, Sharan Newman, Dr Helen Nicholson,
John Edwin Wood, Erling Haagensen, Dr Jim Bennett, Ed Danson, Peter Barber (with
archive footage of Professor Christopher Cornford)
* Documentary primarily made for escapist entertainment rather than for
historical elucidation – shameless vehicle for books like The Holy Blood and
The Holy Grail and The Templars' Secret Island.....
Angels & Demons – The True Story Channel Five Television (Hidden Treasures Production; Love Productions),
10 May 2006
Produced and Directed by Stephen Franklin
Narrated by Paul McGann
Featured Dr Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Mark Irving, Simon Cox, Dan Burstein,
George Lechner, Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson, Lindsay Johns, James Wasserman, Dr
Michael Barkun, Peter Sandford, Dr Amy Bernstein, Greg Tobin, Dr Antonio Sennis
Richard Hammond and The Holy Grail BBC One, 21 May 2006
Produced and Directed by James Hayes
Welcome to the
alternative to
the Priory-of-Sion.com website that provides the salient facts
about
the lies told about the
Priory of Sion and Rennes-le-Château.
Find out all the
TRUTH
about the Abbé Bérenger Saunière and Pierre Plantard here!
Was the Abbé Bérenger Saunière really wealthy and did he discover a treasure and parchments or was he just another French priest?
Take a walk into his church and you'll know straight away
Was Pierre Plantard
really the Grand Master of several secret societies
(actually he was one of three who claimed the position)
and the direct
descendant of the Merovingian Kings?
Possibly one of thousands I suspect. What is the real truth about
Pierre Plantard’s life?
What indeed?
The
Real
answers to these questions can all be found on
this website.
Bérenger Saunière’s
"wealth" is a myth that first originated during the
mid-1950s. Saunière’s entire estate was only valued at
18,000 Francs by the Credit Foncier de France in 1913 when
Saunière had asked it for a loan because by that time he did not
have enough money to even buy food.
"Bérenger Saunière’s "wealth" is a myth that first
originated during the mid-1950s."
Proof Please? I hereby give notice that all of your bluffs
will be called.
This was not the first time that Abbé
Saunière had asked for a loan in order to eat.
Abbé Saunière
lived in poverty for most of his life except for the period
between 1896-1905 and we have the
relevant paperwork to prove it
– Abbé Saunière lived from the selling of masses during
the years 1896-1905 and the paperwork for that exists as well.
Saunière's wealth was either spent or given to Marie
Denarnaud, it is true that most of his income dwindled from 1905 onwards and
during the war years as he was unable to travel. He kept his own records of his
selling of masses, a little strange that he should keep records of the very
thing that could get him into trouble. Most Priests had been guilty of selling
masses, Saunière probably kept records that condemned himself because he did not
wish for too many enquiries into where he really got the money. There was
nothing special about Saunière in regard to this matter. The only thing that
unusual about Saunière was his expenditure. WE have the relevant paperwork for
this too. It is not certain that Saunière ever had ANY money of his own, but boy
did he spend it.
Here is a small section from one of his so-called lean
years
1908
22-janv
307,50 F Maison de la bonne presse
Paris Abonnements
3-mars
21,75 F Mr Ribes
Limoux Librairie
Papeterie
6-mars 6,25
F Mr Méric
Limoux Librairie Papeterie
13-mars
9,30 F Mr Gélis
Carcassonne
Horticulteur
27-mai
167,00 F Mr Issac
Carcassonne
Vêtements ecclésiastiques
4-juin
227,50 F Mr Sabatier
Carcassonne
Distillerie
juillet 7
045,95 F Maison Noubel
Carcassonne
Meubles
17-juil 1
630,50 F Mr Rieu
Limoux Vêtements
22-juil
9,00 F Mr Trintignant
Nîmes
Horticulteur
11-août
15,00 F Mr Gally
Carcassonne
Papeterie
7-sept
64,00 F Mr Bousquié
Carcassonne
Porcelaines
24-nov
12,40 F Mr Bonnafous
Carcassonne
Librairie
7-déc 85,57
F Mr Firmin
Montazels Chaux
et ciments
Note that he spent7 045,95Francs on
Furniture. That is over half as much again on the estimate he received for the
rebuilding of the whole church. He had spent 5 011,70 Fwith the same company on 28th Oct
the previous year.
Over 12000 francs for furniture alone and wait until you
see his bread bill. But I guess somehow Saunière's
records here wont be believed whereas his ones for his selling masses will be.
Selective evidence will become a well represented feature on this website. His
housemaid Marie Denarnaud never worked again for 40 years after Saunière's
death, nice little earner this selling of masses.
Question for you. What would a man who has a guaranteed
large income want with a bank account? What's he saving for? A rainy day?
There's not going to be any rainy days. The money comes in and if you haven't
got anything to spend it on at that moment, you give it away. Which is precisely
what Sauniere did.
Monsignor Billard, Abbé Saunière's Bishop,
was far more wealthier - he inherited over a million Francs in
1891 from a rich widow and he too, lived from selling masses and,
like Abbé Saunière, was eventually to become suspended from his
sacerdotal duties over allegations relating to financial
impropriety within the Church.
So let me get this straight. He inherits a large amount of
money but sells masses for money - Erm! WHY?
Pierre Plantard was a lifelong charlatan and
confidence trickster – his 1937-1954 activities involving
confidence trickery, anti-semitic and anti-masonic activities are
provided in
File Ga P7 which is available for public inspection
at the Paris Prefecture of Police, 9 Boulevard du Palais, 75195
Paris (Monsieur Claude Charlot, is the Director of Museum
Archives of the Bureau of Associations at the Paris Prefecture of
Police, for written enquiries).
Presumably a point will be forth coming from this. So he's
anti-semitic and anti-masonic so by some twisted logic we are to assume he's a
liar too?
References to Pierre Plantard’s
criminal convictions are available for public inspection at the
Sub-Prefecture of Saint Julien-en-Genevois, 4 Avenue de Geneve,
74164 Saint Julien-en-Genevois, Haute-Savoie (Monsieur Serge
Champanhet, is the Secretary General of the Sub-Prefecture, for
written enquiries – the letter dated 8 June 1956 by the Mayor
of Annemasse to the Sub Prefect contained in
File Number KM 94550
which holds the 1956 Priory of Sion Registration Documents must
be cited in the written enquiry).
Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela, Ghandi all had a spells
in prison. He was anti mason, you said so. Everyone knows that when you're
anti-mason and anti-semitic and you're effective you'll have trumped up charges
made against you.
Pierre Plantard’s Judicial Archives are
held in the Tribunal de Grand Instance de Thonon-les-Bains. But
these unfortunately are not available for public inspection due
to the French Privacy Law.
So why mention them? Smith hasn't got the first damn clue
what's in them.
Pierre Plantard got into serious trouble in 1993 with
Judge Thierry Jean-Pierre
because he claimed that Roger Patrice Pelat was a "Grand Master of the
Priory of Sion" - and the Judge was heading an investigation into
Pelat’s activities that involved financial improprieties - it was
following this incident in September 1993 that Plantard ceased his
Priory of Sion activities and lived out the rest of his life in
isolation.
Somehow Smith seems to think that because these people were
bad then the whole story must be fake. I guess there must be some logic there
somewhere.
Smith's slight of hand designed to
deceive.
Paul Smith is required immediately
to alter a statement he madehere.
Pierre Plantard, Judge
Thierry Jean-Pierre
and the End of the Priory of Sion in 1993
Paul Smith
Judge Thierry
Jean-Pierre
Although Pierre Plantard "officially retired" from
Priory of Sion activities during the mid-1980s following a conflict with
the French author Jean-Luc Chaumeil, who discovered details about
Plantard's past and published the Statutes of the Alpha Galates, Plantard
did not stop contriving his schemes – he continued underground with his
Priory of Sion fantasies and later revived it in a different form with a
different myth and pedigree in 1989, claiming that Roger-Patrice Pelat was
one of its Grand Masters during the interim period of 1984-1992. See
here for an explanation.
When Judge Thierry Jean-Pierre became the presiding
French Judge heading the enquiry into the Patrice Pelat financial
corruption scandal of the 1980s, Plantard voluntarily came forward during
the 1990s offering evidence to the enquiry, claiming that Pelat had been a
"Grand Master of the Priory of Sion". The Judge ordered a search of
Plantard's house which uncovered a hoard of Priory of Sion Documents,
claiming Plantard to be the "true King of France" – the Judge subsequently
detained Plantard for a 48 hour interview and, after asking Plantard to
swear on Oath – Plantard admitted that he made everything up; whereupon
Plantard was given a serious warning and advised not to "play games" with
the French Judicial System. This happened in September 1993 and it was all
reported in the French Press of the period. This was the reason for the
final termination of the Priory of Sion in 1993 and the subsequent
life-in-hiding for Pierre Plantard, never to reappear in public again or
to be involved with his Priory of Sion fantasy again.
Between 1993 and his death in 2000 Pierre Plantard
shuttled backwards and forwards from Barcelona, Perpignan and Paris. His
remains were cremated when he died in February 2000.
Plantard
ONLY admitted that he made everything up about Pelat about his status as a
Priory of Sion Grand Master.
PLANTARD HAS NEVER ADMITTED THAT HE
MADE EVERYTHING UP ABOUT THE PRIORY OF SION.
Plantard thought that the
Multi-Millionaire Pelat, who was the financial backing of the French President
François Mitterrand was the
member of the Prieuré de Sion secret society. He probably was it's just that Plantard didn't have
any proof only a hunch. In any case Plantard didn't use the words 'he made
everything up' he said that he didn't have the proof.
This is a deliberate attempt at
deception, Smith should immediately alter his ambiguous statement.
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