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

* Pierre Plantard, the mastermind behind the Priory of Sion hoax who claimed to be Merovingian, a pretender to the throne of France.

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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Although not a major high-tech city like many of its neighbors, Campbell is the original home of eBay and of its creator, Pierre Omidyar.

It is there he met some of his future colleagues: Maurice de Bevere ( Morris, creator of Lucky Luke ), Pierre Culliford ( Peyo, creator of the Smurfs ), and Eddy Paape.

* Edgar Pierre Jacobs, comic book artist, creator of Blake and Mortimer ( 1904 – 1987 )

* Pierre Bézier, French engineer and creator of Bézier curves

Edgard Félix Pierre Jacobs, ( 30 March 1904-20 February 1987 ), better known under his pen name Edgar P. Jacobs, was a Belgian comic book creator ( writer and artist ), born in Brussels, Belgium.

A century after its publication, this was the tale with which the sculptor Pierre Julien chose to associate its creator in his statue of La Fontaine ( commissioned in 1782 ), now in the Louvre.

Other examples included Jasper Crane of DuPont ; B. E. Hutchinson of Chrysler ; Henry Weaver of General Electric ; Pierre Goodrich, the Indianapolis businessman and creator in 1960 of Liberty Fund ; Richard Earhart, founder of the Earhart Foundation ; and Harold Luhnow of the Volker Fund.

Pierre Christin ( born 27 July 1938 ) is a French comics creator and writer.

The game was created and written by artist Pierre Gilhodes, the creator of the Gobliiins series, of which Woodruff shares its visual style, gameplay and offbeat humor, though is not an official part of the Gobliiins series or canon.

* Pierre Fournier ( comic books ), Canadian French language comics creator

This made Michèle the niece of Pierre Laroque, the creator of Social Security in France.

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.

Le Rapt d ' Europe (" The Abduction of Europa ( mythology ) | Europa ," 1750 ) by Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre ( Dallas Museum of Art )

* Mythology: Mark Morford's, Edward Tripp's, and Pierre Grimal's mythology handbooks.

The king of Ethiopia Cepheus, King of Aethiopia | Cepheus and the queen Cassiopeia thank Perseus ( mythology ) | Perseus for freeing their daughter Andromeda, La Délivrance d ' Andromède ( 1679 ) Pierre Mignard, Louvre

Pierre Cartier tried to sell the Hope Diamond to Washington D. C. socialite Evalyn Walsh McLean and her husband in 1910.

At the closing of the games a prize was awarded for a sport that did not lend itself very well for tournaments: Pierre de Coubertin presented a prize for alpinisme to Charles Granville Bruce, the leader of the expedition that tried to climb Mount Everest in 1922.

Cyrano was a freethinker and a pupil of Pierre Gassendi, a canon of the Catholic Church who tried to reconcile Epicurean atomism with Christianity.

In Canada, the most recent example of a cabinet minister appointed from outside of parliament having to resign after losing a by-election was in 1975 when Minister of Communications Pierre Juneau was appointed to Pierre Trudeau's Liberal cabinet directly from the private sector and tried to enter parliament through a by-election in Hochelaga.

According to The Story of Jim Henson by Stephanie St. Pierre, the costume was built for Jim Henson to perform, but when Henson tried it on, Kermit Love, who had built the costume, did not think that Henson was walking like a bird is supposed to walk, and so Henson decided not to perform Big Bird.

# Among Catholic writers, Pierre Faydit, who was expelled from the Oratory at Paris in 1671 for disobedience and died in 1709, practiced a form of Tritheism in his Eclaireissements sur la doctrine et Phistoire ecclésiastiqes des deux premiers siecles ( Paris, 1696 ), in which he tried to make out that the earliest Fathers were Tritheists.

Heinrich Himmler ordered the Gestapo to assassinate him, and Pierre Laval tried to persuade him to return to Germany.

Madame Laval was later released ; Pierre Laval remained in prison to be tried as a traitor.

Coluche's huge success with the Restos du Cœur, caused by his popularity ( Coluche had even tried to present himself to the 1981 presidential election before withdrawing ), convinced Abbé Pierre once again of the necessity and value of such charitable struggles and the usefulness of the media in such endeavours.

The Abbé Pierre then condemned those who tried to " negate, banalize or falsify the Shoah ," but his continued support to Garaudy as a friend was criticized by all anti-racist, Jewish organisations ( MRAP, CRIF, Anti-Defamation League, etc.

He tried to introduce Lennon to Pierre Trudeau, but the prime minister was not at home when they dropped by.

He has said about the creation of L = A = N = G = U = A = G = E, " We tried to trace a history of radical poetics, taking up the model presented in Jerome Rothenberg ’ s Revolution of the Word, and later by Rothenberg and Pierre Joris in Poems for the Millennium and Marjorie Perloff in The Futurist Moment.

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 ).

However, Pierre and Margaret tried as much as possible to protect their children from the public eye, and after Pierre retired as Prime Minister in 1984, he raised them in relative privacy in Montreal.

Initially Poher tried to recruit General Marie Pierre Kœnig as a candidate for the Presidency and offered him his full support.

routinely tried to injure one another, and whether or not they stood up for teammates in such instances, it got so bad that in 1959 the Rangers ’ Andy Bathgate was compelled to write an article for True magazine, headlined “ Atrocities on Ice .” As this post from the blog Fellowship of Hockey relates, Bathgate ’ s article actually named the league ’ s guiltiest parties when it came to spearing: Montreal ’ s Doug Harvey and Tom Johnson, Boston ’ s Fern Flaman, Chicago ’ s Ted Lindsay and Pierre Pilote, and Lou Fontinato from Bathgate ’ s own Rangers.

French journalist Pierre Péan asserted that M ' ba secretly tried to prevent Gabonese independence ; instead, he lobbied for it to become an overseas territory of France.

He was sentenced to death by an Extraordinary Court of Justice in Milan, and was shot on July 10, having tried ( like French collaborator Pierre Laval ) and failed to commit suicide while in captivity.

In 1690 Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville tried but was driven away by a larger English ship.

While at the Conservatoire, he also tried his hand at composition and in 1942 three of his settings of poems by Paul Valéry were given a performance by Pierre Bernac.

Pierre Brice tried to escape the Winnetou character in a 1976 TV series, " Die Mädchen aus dem Weltraum " ( Star Maidens ), and in several movies for the big screen, playing Zorro in the Italian " Zorro contro Maciste " ( 1963 ).

Like Lex Barker ( who recorded two tracks as a singer ), Pierre Brice tried to sing with the help of German composer Martin Boettcher, and even managed to issue several singles and CDs.