In 1962, author Robert Charroux published his book Trésors du monde telling the story of Noël Corbu, who claimed the 19th century priest Bérenger Saunière had discovered the treasure of Blanche of Castile in the village of Rennes-le-Château.

In January 1956, the local newspaper La Dépêche du Midi serialised an interview with Corbu in who claimed that Father Saunière discovered the treasure of Blanche of Castile, and which ' according to the archives ' consisted of 28, 500, 000 gold pieces.

Corbu also claimed Saunière had in 1892 discovered " parchments " whilst renovating his church " written in a mixture of French and Latin, which at first glance could be discerned passages from the Gospels ".

Surviving receipts and existing account books belonging to Saunière, preserved by his servant Marie Dénarnaud and inherited by Noël Corbu, reveal that the renovation of the church, including works on the presbytery and cemetery, cost 11, 605 Francs over a ten year period between 1887 and 1897.

It was one day while going for a picnic to Rennes-le-Château that the Corbu family met Marie Dénarnaud, the former housekeeper of Bérenger Saunière.

In 1946, Marie Dénarnaud bequeathed to Noël Corbu by Holographic will the former estate of Abbé Bérenger Saunière, that he constructed in her name between 1899-1905.

The estate comprised the Villa Bethania, the Tour Magdala, an Orangery, and the Belvedere that connects the Tour Magdala to the Orangery When Marie Dénarnaud died in 1953, Corbu inherited her archives relating to Bérenger Saunière.

Le Corbusier visited MIT in, an occasion which powerfully affected Pei: " The two days with Le Corbusier, or ' Corbu ' as we used to call him, were probably the most important days in my architectural education.

Born in Paris in 1912, the young Noël Corbu lived in Morocco due to his father being an attaché at the Embassy there, before obtaining the degree of Doctor of Science in Paris.

The following towns and villages are situated along the river Vedea, from source to mouth: Făgeţelu, Spineni, Tătuleşti, Optaşi, Corbu, Nicolae Titulescu, Văleni, Stejaru, Roşiorii de Vede, Vedea, Peretu, Plosca, Mavrodin, Buzescu, Alexandria, Poroschia, Brânceni, Smârdioasa, Cervenia, Conţeşti, Bragadiru, Bujoru.

It featured her backing band of Andrei Stanoevici, Cătălin Dalvarea, Ștefan Corbu and her ex-husband Mihai Alexandru.

Noël Corbu circulated the story from the mid-1950s when he opened his restaurant that Saunière discovered parchments in the hollow pillar of his Altar in 1891, and these related to the treasure of Blanche of Castile, and which ' according to the archives ' consisted of 28, 500, 000 gold pieces.

Noël Corbu ( 27 April 1912 – 20 May 1968 ) is best known as a former restaurateur in the Southern French village of Rennes-le-Château, who from the mid-1950s circulated the story that the 19th-century French priest Bérenger Saunière discovered the treasure of Blanche of Castile.

In 1935 Corbu married Henriette Coll.

In 1950 Corbu returned to Morocco hoping to set up a sugar refinery, but was unsuccessful.

The Dowsing-by-Pendulum enthusiast and hypnotist Rolland Domergue, with medium Germaine Goyard, joined Corbu in 1958 to look for the treasure, and thus began the extensive accumulation of pilgrimages to the site by many various people from all over France, that on 28 July 1965 forced the local Municipal council to introduce a local By-law prohibiting excavations in the village.

In April 1961, the French Television Channel RTF made a documentary directed by Marina Grey entitled La Roue Tourne (" The Wheel Turns "), that cast Noël Corbu as Father Saunière.

The text of the document attributed to " Antoine L ' Ermite " was modelled on Charroux's account found in his book, Trésors du Monde, where he extensively quoted Noël Corbu.

Noël Corbu sold the estate in 1964 to Henri Buthion ( 1924 – 2002 ), moving to Saint-Félix-Lauragais.

Corbu was killed in a car accident on 20 May 1968 on the road between Carcassonne and Castelnaudary.

Noël Corbu's daughter Claire Corbu with her husband Antoine Captier in 1985 published L ' Héritage de l ’ Abbé Saunière that reproduced some of the important archive documents relating to Bérenger Saunière, and in May 1989 opened the Saunière Museum in the village of Rennes-le-Château, being part of the Association Terre de Rhedae, supported by the local Municipal council.

From the mid-1950s local hotelier Noël Corbu circulated a story that the 19th century priest Bérenger Saunière of Rennes-le-Château had discovered the treasure of Blanche of Castile.

Nearby is a reservoir, the Lac de l ' Ospedale, created with a dam at the foot of punta di Corbu in the forest of Ospedale.

Napoleon " spared no pains " to please her and claimed at one point to prefer Marie Louise to his first wife Joséphine ; while he had loved Joséphine, he claimed, he had not respected her, whereas with Marie Louise, there was " Never a lie, never a debt " — presumably a reference to Joséphine's rumoured extramarital affairs and reputation as a spendthrift.

Again, some claimed that one of her daughters also named Marie ( many of the daughters had Marie within their names due to Catholic naming practices ) assumed her name and carried on her magical practice, taking over as the queen soon before or after the first Marie's death.

While several countries have made claims to parts of Antarctica, most of Marie Byrd Land ( the portion east of 150 ° W ) has not been claimed by any sovereign nation.

* the current terra nullius cases of Bir Tawil and Marie Byrd Land are not claimed by any of the other 222 entities ;

It continued to be claimed, however, by Charles's daughter Marie and her heirs.

Antoine d ' Ornano sued him for illegally appropriating contents taken from " Marie Walewska, " l ' ėpouse polonaise de Napolėon "", and when Antoine died, his descendants claimed that the aforementioned extracts were not historical source materials, as Savant claimed, but merely an invention of the author.

" Marie Larisch, an illegitimate cousin of the Empress ' and one of Vetsera's closest friends, claimed she had confided: " Mamma has no love for me ... Ever since I was a little girl she has treated me like something she means to dispose of to the best advantage.

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.

On the death of his cousin, Jean Louis Charles, Duke of Longueville ( 1646 – 1694 ) and in accordance to his will, Conti claimed the principality of Neuchâtel against Marie d ' Orléans, Duchesse of Nemours, ( 1625 – 1707 ), a sister of the duke.

As to fables, one of the most popular collections in the Middle Ages was that written by Marie de France, which she claimed to have translated from King Alfred.

Because of its remoteness, even by Antarctic standards, most of Marie Byrd Land ( the portion east of 150 ° W ) has not been claimed by any sovereign nation.

For this reason, despite her title Marie was not a member of the dynastic branch of the Bonapartes who claimed the French imperial throne from exile.

Robert Harvey Longabaugh ( February 21, 1901-December 18, 1972 ), who claimed years later to be the son of Longabaugh, claimed that Etta Place was actually Hazel Tyrone, a half-sister to his mother, Annie Marie Thayne.

Murphy had opposed the idea that an individual mind with personality as an entity would survive, instead he claimed the mind and all of its memories would merge itself into a larger field of consciousness.

A counterpoint to this argument would be that neither Samaria nor Syria where these refugees were claimed to have originated from were actually ever part of Assyria, but were colonies inhabited largely by Hebrews, Nabateans and Arameans respectively.

They pointed out that astrologers have only a small knowledge of astronomy and that they often do not take into account basic features such as the precession of the equinoxes which would change the position of the sun with time ; they commented on the example of Elizabeth Teissier who claimed that " the sun ends up in the same place in the sky on the same date each year " as the basis for claims that two people with the same birthday but a number of years apart should be under the same planetary influence.

In modern law, the title would have fallen into abeyance between the two daughters of the second son, and nobody else would have been able to claim it even if the abeyance were settled ; in 1597, the grandson of the third son claimed the title and its precedence.

Late in 2010, some Congressmen ( after the four-day Bicentennial holiday was proved successful ) asked for a law that would forbid the opening of supermarkets and department stores on Sundays, however retailers claimed that Sunday shopping made about 20 % of their weekly sales, more than other day of the week, thus preventing the law from taking place.

Patterson claimed to have screened the film for unnamed technicians " in the special effects department at Universal Studios in Hollywood ... Their conclusion was: ' We could try ( faking it ), but we would have to create a completely new system of artificial muscles and find an actor who could be trained to walk like that.

The government claimed that privatisation would see an improvement in passenger services.

Henry Bostock claimed to have heard the pirates say they would head toward the Spanish-controlled Samaná Bay in Hispaniola, but a cursory search revealed no pirate activity.

Although there were many IRA men — both Official and Provisional — present at the protest, it is claimed they were all unarmed, apparently because it was anticipated that the paratroopers would attempt to " draw them out ".

Davy further claimed that elements that were then believed to be gases, such as nitrogen and hydrogen could be liquified under the right conditions and would then behave as metals.

Ironically, one of the stronger arguments against this position came from an individual highly respected by their theological quarter, Bliss Knapp, who claimed that Eddy understood through her lawyer that these consent clauses would not hinder normal operation after her decease.

In that book, Malthus claimed that population growth would outstrip food production, because population grew geometrically, while food production grew arithmetically.

The first episode was aired on 9 December 1960 and was not initially a critical success ; Daily Mirror columnist Ken Iriwin claimed the series would only last three weeks.

If a nation continues on this path without resistance, Gini claimed the nation would enter a final decadent stage where the nation would degenerate as noted by decreasing birth rate, decreasing cultural output, and the lack of imperial conquest.

Most of the rumors circle from the same source of Saint Jerome who claimed “ Cyril was an out and out Arian, was offered the see on Maximus death on the condition that he would repudiate his ordination at the hands of that Bishop ”.

Eastman claimed that " life was a big battle for the complete feminist ," but she was convinced that the complete feminist would someday achieve total victory.

Constantine would claim to have the same close relationship with the Christian God as Diocletian claimed to have with Jupiter.

In June 2004, the British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw stated that US authorities had repeatedly assured him that no detainees had passed in transit through Diego Garcia or were disembarked there .< ref > In October 2007 the all-party Foreign Affairs Committee of the British Parliament announced that it would launch an investigation of continued allegations of a prison camp on Diego Garcia, which it claimed were twice confirmed by comments made by Retired US Army General Barry McCaffrey.

Additionally, Benton claimed in the early 1990s that he would commit suicide at the age of 33 to " mirror " a lifespan opposite that of Jesus Christ ( however, he passed that age in 2000 and did not commit suicide, rebutting in 2006 that these statements had been " asinine remarks " and that " only cowards and losers " choose to kill themselves ).

Given the limited budget for schools, it is claimed that a voucher system would weaken public schools while at the same time not necessarily providing enough money for people to attend private schools.

King Philip II of France claimed that certain properties in Normandy belonged to his half-sister, Margaret of France, widow of the young Henry, but Henry insisted that they had once belonged to Eleanor and would revert to her upon her son's death.

Inhabitants of the underground future world of THX would retreat to " confession booths " when stressed, and initiate a one-sided Eliza-formula conversation with a Jesus-faced computer who claimed to be " Omm ".