The book was later revealed to be based on a hoax originating with Pierre Plantard in the mid-20th century.

Pierre Plantard, the creator of the Priory of Sion mythology, tried to argue that the sepulchre at Les Pontils was a " prototype " for Poussin's painting, but it was situated directly opposite a farmhouse ( behind the foliage ) and was not in the " middle of nowhere " in the French countryside, as is commonly assumed.

The precursor to these Rosslyn theories is the 1982 book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln that introduced the theory of the Jesus bloodline in relation to the Priory of Sion hoax-the main protagonist of which was Pierre Plantard, who for a time adopted the name Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair.

Pierre Athanase Marie Plantard ( 18 March 1920 – 3 February 2000 ) was a French draughtsman, best known for being the principal perpetrator of the Priory of Sion hoax, by which he claimed from the 1960s onwards that he was a Merovingian descendant of Dagobert II and the " Great Monarch " prophesied by Nostradamus.

Pierre Plantard was born in 1920, in Paris, the son of a butler and a concierge ( described as a cook for wealthy families in police reports of the 1940s ).

According to a police report on the Alpha Galates dated 13 February 1945 the organisation was only composed of at most 50 members, who resigned one after the other as soon as they sized up the president of the association ( Pierre Plantard ) and figured out that it was not a serious enterprise.

According to the late Robert Amadou ( 1924 – 2006 ), Pierre Plantard in 1953 was accused of selling degrees of esoteric orders for exorbitant sums.

French researchers dispute the connection between Robert Amadou and Pierre Plantard.

On 25 June 1956, Pierre Plantard and André Bonhomme legally registered in the town of St Julien-en-Genevois a new association called the Priory of Sion, based in Annemasse close to the French border near Geneva.

Plantard added that his past relative, Abbé Pierre Plantard, former vicar of the Basilica of St. Clotilde, Paris, drew up genealogies giving the survival of the line of Dagobert II on 18 March 1939.

But it was due to the success of de Sède's book L ' Or de Rennes that Pierre Plantard became famous, as the guardian of the secret of Rennes-le-Château.

In 1989, when Plantard revised his claims about the Priory of Sion, it was stated in a 1989 issue of Vaincre: " The parchments of Blanche of Castile were in Etienne Plantard's safe-deposit box in London since November 1955 and they did not ' mention ' Dagobert, or a Dagobert II and Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair was never ' a Merovingian pretender ' to the throne of France: His lineage results from the Counts de Rhédae and by the female line of Saint Clair-sur-Epte, which has no relationship with ' Sinclair '.

From 1975 Pierre Plantard used the surname Plantard de Saint-Clair, described as an epithet by Jean-Luc Chaumeil, following his interview with Plantard in the magazine l ’ Ère d ’ Aquarius.

Pierre Plantard was hypothesised as the direct descendant of Jesus Christ.

This initiative by Plantard had an unexpected consequence ; in October 1993, the judge investigating the Pelat scandal had Pierre Plantard's house searched.

* Chaumeil-Plantard, second part of an interview of Jean-Luc Chaumeil where he mentions his discovery of the bewitched hill and the owner of the abbé's estate, Henri Buthion, as well as his tumultuous relations with Pierre Plantard, Gérard de Sède and Mathieu Paoli

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In Europe, Pierre Laffitte, the mastermind and founder of Sophia Antipolis Science Park in France, described the concept of cross fertilization as the interchange between different cultures or different ways of thinking that is mutually productive and beneficial ; " the cross-fertilization of science and the creative arts " not only in terms of economic, but also on a social and cultural level.

Chirac vainly attempted to rally Gaullists behind Prime minister Pierre Messmer.

The real impetus behind the modern cultural fascination with solving crime using entomological evidence can be traced back to the works Faune de Tombeaux ( Fauna of the Tomb, 1887 ) and Les Faunes des Cadavres ( Fauna of the Cadaver, 1894 ) by French veterinarian and entomologist Jean Pierre Mégnin.

) Turner stayed on until the fourth and final ballot despite finishing a distant third behind Pierre Trudeau and runner-up Robert Winters.

When the final votes were counted, Banting finished fourth behind Tommy Douglas, Terry Fox and Pierre Trudeau.

Pierre Gilliard recalled his last sight of the children at Yekaterinburg: " The sailor Nagorny, who attended to Alexei Nikolaevitch, passed my window carrying the sick boy in his arms, behind him came the Grand Duchesses loaded with valises and small personal belongings.

Waddle was also voted second best OM player of the century behind Jean Pierre Papin for the club's century anniversary in 1998.

From the mid 1920s onwards Bliss moved more into the established English musical tradition, leaving behind the influence of Stravinsky and the French modernists, and in the words of the critic Frank Howes, " after early enthusiastic flirtations with aggressive modernism admitted to a romantic heart and given rein to its less and less inhibited promptings " He received two major commissions from American orchestras, the Introduction and Allegro ( 1926 ) for the Philadelphia Orchestra and Leopold Stokowski and Hymn to Apollo ( 1926 ) for the Boston Symphony and Pierre Monteux.

Pierre Curie and his brother, Jacques Curie, studied pyroelectricity in the 1880s, leading to their discovery of some of the mechanisms behind piezoelectricity.

A number made their way to LeCarbet just south of St. Pierre behind a ridge that protected that town from the worst of the pyroclastic flow and were rescued on the beach there by Martinique officials.

During this period he lived with the French poet Pierre Martory, whose books Every Question but One ( 1990 ), The Landscape Is behind the door ( 1994 ) and The Landscapist he has translated ( 2008 ), as he has Jean Perrault ( Camouflage ), Max Jacob ( The Dice Cup ), Pierre Reverdy and Raymond Roussel.

Reformation was started by co-workers of John Calvin like Pierre Viret, including a famous debate at the cathedral of Lausanne ; but it was only decisively implemented when Bern put its full force behind it.

Reformation was started by co-workers of John Calvin like Pierre Viret, including a famous debate at the cathedral of Lausanne ; but it was only decisively implemented when Bern put its full force behind it.

He ran for the 1983 Quebec Liberal Party leadership convention but finished third behind Pierre Paradis and winner Robert Bourassa.

He was the primary figure behind the Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance of 1935, though it was signed by his successor, Pierre Laval.

When, in 1815, the French abandoned Antwerp after the Congress of Vienna, Pierre Conscience stayed behind.

* Pierre Cardin the man behind Maxim's

After the 2002 French presidential election, in which far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen arrived second behind conservative candidate Jacques Chirac, many analysts put the blame of the surprising result on working class, accused of engaging themselves in " protest vote ", that is in support of fringe candidates belonging to the far-left or the far-right, or even to people who present themselves as alien to the political world ( in France, environmentalist René Dumont in 1974, comedian Coluche in 1981 — but he withdrew his candidacy before the elections — environmentalist Pierre Rabhi who unsuccessfully tried to present himself in 2002, as well as TV showman Nicolas Hulot who almost stood for the election for 2007, before putting aside his idea, thus leaving electoral space for José Bové, a figure of the alterglobalization movement who recently decided to present himself as an independent candidate ).

After four seasons with Guelph, he left the club ranked third all-time in career points with 280, behind O ' Neill and Martin St. Pierre.

While the problems at HRDC mostly date from the time of her predecessor, Pierre Pettigrew, Stewart took the brunt of the attack but was also the Minister widely viewed to have cleaned up the mess left behind by her predecessor.

Husam was interviewed by Pierre Rehov for making of his documentary Suicide Killers where Rehov studies the psychopathology behind Muslim terrorism, and why some Muslim parents are willing to offer their children as martyrs.

Pierre Soulé, the driving force behind the Ostend Manifesto

Marchand and Gérard Pelletier united behind Justice Minister Pierre Trudeau.

The deserted Priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs ( and particularly its Gothic refectory by Pierre de Montereau ) was selected as the site of collection, which formally opened in 1802.

The book L ' Or de Rennes by Gérard de Sède ( with the collaboration of Pierre Plantard ) contained elements relating to the fictitious secret society the Priory of Sion, reproducing " parchments " that alluded to the survival of the Merovingian line of Frankish kings from Dagobert II, and Pierre Plantard claimed to be descended from that monarch.

This category collects together articles related to the alleged French occult group Priory of Sion created as a political hoax by Pierre Plantard.

A schism developed between Pierre Plantard and Philippe de Chérisey in 1983, when de Chérisey began collaborating with Paul Rouelle ( his dentist ) on a book which would have incorporated the Priory of Sion concepts.

Philippe de Chérisey, a friend and associate of Pierre Plantard, later claimed in 1978 that the subterranean chapel contained " 30 iron coffers of the archives of the Priory of Sion.