Dr Jean Gourdon, Stations Thermales de l’Aude. Rennes-les-Bains, Campagne, Alet. Guide Médical et Topographique (Toulouse, 1874).

This work by Dr Jean Gourdon (1824-1876), which among its pages also centres around Roman Remains found at Rennes-les-Bains, has become one of the central textbooks used to mislead and to misguide the addicts of the Priory of Sion, from the early 1960s until 1990 when Pierre Plantard became investigated by Judge Thierry Jean-Pierre (1955-2005) for claiming that Roger-Patrice Pelat (31 July 1918 – 7 March 1989), was the Grand Master of the Priory of Sion. Roger-Patrice Pelat had been charged in France with Insider-Trading.

This course of action was subsequently responsible for Pierre Plantard being forced to retire from his Priory of Sion hoax activities until his death in Barcelona in 2000. Despite having an allotted grave in the village of Rennes-les-Bains (and properties on Rocco Negro where Plantard hilariously claimed to have discovered the Menorah), Pierre Plantard was cremated.

During their lives together Pierre Plantard and Philippe de Chérisey used various aliases, either living or dead, in order to misguide and to mislead their gullible readership. The works of Pierre Plantard and Philippe de Chérisey are nothing but utter rubbish as demonstrated by the author “Pierre Jarnac” (Michel Vallet), in several of his French books and articles – but you would never know it from reading the works by the gullible believers.

It is another transparent example of people being conned. It is now 2025 and there are only a few Priory of Sion addicts left in the world, but the sheer enormity of their distorted reasoning and their vast enthusiasm to believe in outright lies makes up for it all.

Pierre Plantard and Philippe de Chérisey were not honourable and conscientious esoterics – they were both liars who also laughed at the gullibility of their readership.

As a result of the Rennes-le-Château “treasure” hocus-pocus dating from the mid-1950s (and not dating from Abbé Saunière's lifetime), and the lies of Pierre Plantard and Philippe de Chérisey – certain amateur “archaeologists” that have been steeped in both the Priory of Sion hoax and the The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail farrago of nonsense since the 1990s, have tried to claim that there is a “treasure” to be found in the village of Rennes-les-Bains; the trouble is, they cannot find any other reputable archaeologist to take any notice of them.