Rennes-le-Château Researchers & Hoaxsters
Rest In Peace
Henri Rouzaud (Henri-Pierre Rouzaud),
14 November 1855-17 July 1935



Doctor of Sciences, lecturer at the Faculty of Montpellier, Archaeologist, Republican Councillor, Député de l'Aude 1893-1898 – Henri Rouzaud was also a winegrower.

Henri Rouzaud produced a handwritten 5-volume-set Travelogue of towns and villages that he visited, noting down what was of archaeological interest. These volumes are deposited in the library of Narbonne.

On 2 September 1910 Henri Rouzaud visited Rennes-les-Bains where he witnessed the remains of a putative Roman temple – also mentioning that most of the Roman coins listed in the 1709 Mémoire by Abbé Delmas were taken by Dr Vaysse of Quillan. Rouzaud also referred to Boudet’s collection of coins and to his discovery of Gallo-Roman pottery; also mentioning the square marble C. POMPEIVS QVARTVS plaque (Cahier Nº 2, pp. 22-32).
* Médiathèque du Grand Narbonne. Ms 312 (2).

On 12 September 1910 Henri Rouzaud visited Rennes-le-Château where he was informed by “the old maid of Abbé Saunière” that the Dalle des Chevaliers was a tombstone discovered in the church that covered a pile of human bones. Rouzaud also noted how the pillar that supported the statue of Notre Dame de Lourdes resembled a pillar in the museum of Narbonne (Cahier Nº 4, pp. 93-95).
* Médiathèque du Grand Narbonne. Ms 312 (4).







Rennes-le-Château Researchers & Hoaxsters