Former retired Belgian architect Paul Saussez is obviously not on Planet Earth! He keeps pushing and pushing his nonsensical fantasy that the Large Parchment was not by Philippe de Chérisey! There is absolutely no direct connection whatsoever between the Large Parchment and the epitaph on the tombstone of Marie de Negre d’Ables except that which was claimed by Philippe de Chérisey and nobody else. The deciphered message of the Large Parchment was first given in a 1965 Priory Document before the appearance of the parchments in Gérard de Sède’s book in 1967. The decipherment appeared before the “reproductions” of the Large Parchment!

What's more, when these parchments were revealed as being fraudulent, that was when two new parchments were concocted to take their place in the book by Louis Vazart, “Dagobert II et le mystère de la cité royale de Stenay”, containing an afterword by Philippe de Chérisey, in 1983.

For more information about the Large Parchment.

The tombstone of Marie de Negri d’Ables formed part of a secondary slab that also belonged to Marie de Negre d’Ables – that happened to be the complete imagination of Philippe de Chérisey – that contained important elements forming part of the decipherment of the Large Parchment. It’s a good thing that not all of us suffer from amnesia!

It’s hilarious to imagine that the source of the Large Parchment was found in the book, “La France gagne la guerre des codes secrets 1914-1918” by Sophie de Lastours (Tallandier, 1998). Does the book also mention that the decipherment of the Large Parchment also crucially depends upon Philippe de Chérisey’s fake gravestone, above?

The easiest thing to say about Paul Saussez is that he cannot ever prove anything about his claims about the Large Parchment! His claims only represent a miniscule part of the new generation of mystifiers of Rennes-le-Château following the deaths of Noël Corbu, Pierre Plantard & Philippe de Chérisey. There was absolutely nothing special about Rennes-le-Château BEFORE the beginning of the myth during the 1950s and the wealth of Abbé Saunière itself is completely meaningless.

To repeat yet again – Abbé Saunière died a penniless pauper in 1917 owing money to his grocer – and his servant Marie Denarnaud could not afford to buy Abbé Saunière’s coffin until some time after his death! Marie Denarnaud herself accrued a staggering amount of debts until they were all settled by Noël Corbu in 1946!

Of course, the subject matter MUST REMAIN as an empty void of a mystery without any explanation in order to keep the excitement about the myth going. This has been ascertained by the fact that nobody – nobody – in 70 years of “research” – has been able to prove anything at all.

Finally, the “Trojan Horse” technique deployed by some skeptics has not produced any positive results whatsoever, except perhaps to fully demonstrate just how totally invincible the Believers really are in their mule-headed stubbornness!

The power of escapism will forever be vastly more popular than the power of reality.