It's so very easy. Anyone who promotes “mystery” in relation to Abbé Bérenger Saunière and the subject matter of Rennes-le-Château is misguided. The Rennes-le-Château “mystery” began with Noël Corbu after the death of Marie Dénarnaud in 1953. Everything else that has followed has been one giant accretion.

As for the crypt of the church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine – its crypt was searched by the semi-gullible Jacques Cholet decades before the current generation of True Believers, who failed to find anything out of the ordinary.

These types of books have been vastly popular for their intoxication value but they are also a very good way of reading something without actually learning anything.

Amazon Books are full of them.

These types of authors are all the same.