The Priory of Sion: Hoax, Conspiracy, or Secret Society? by Bauer Conrad

Author:Bauer, Conrad [Bauer, Conrad]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Maplewood Publishing
Published: 2016-04-11T22:00:00+00:00

The Truth

But even as the story begins to unravel, it can help to pay an increased amount of attention to the plight of Pierre Plantard. Unlike the other errors committed during the research of the book, Plantard was the only person who was directly named (and was alive to deal with the resulting attention.) If, as suggested in the book, Plantard was the supposed descendant of Jesus Christ, how would this affect his life? One thing that it certainly accomplished was forcing people to look closer at the man’s history, something which he may or may not have desired.

One of the facts uncovered during an investigation into the supposed last in the Merovingian line related to one of the more troubled times in France’s recent history. In the latter months of 1940, France found herself occupied by Nazi Germany. The invaders sought to set up a government in France, one which they controlled and through which they could rule over the country. This was known as the Vichy government, due to the location of its headquarters, and was headed up by a man named Marshal Petain. One day, Petain received a letter from a man signing his name as Varran de Varestra. The message was a plea, with the writer begging Petain to involve France in no further combat. Rather than asking for an end to the conflict, however, the author of the letter specifically cited “Masonic and Jewish” conspirators as posing a direct threat to France and even the world. The writer of the letter claimed to have “about a hundred reliable men” on his side who were “devoted to our cause.” If Marshal Petain gave the order, Varran de Varestra and his reliable men who would leap to defeat the conspiracy.

The letter seemed to cause something of a stir within the halls of the Vichy government. An investigation was conducted and a report was put together at the request if the Secretary of State for the Interior. According to the findings, this so-called ‘Varran de Varestra’ was none other than Pierre Athanase Marie Plantard, who had been born in Paris on the 18th of March, 1920. He was described as a bachelor and the son of French parents, one of whom was a butler who had died in a work accident. At the time the letter was written, Plantard was living with his mother in a two bedroom apartment, surviving on the money from his mother’s pension.

Pierre Plantard, it seemed, had a long history in a number of organizations. He had established and maintained a number of groups, many of whom had a decidedly anti-Semitic and anti-Masonic tilt. La Renovation Nationale Francaise, Plantard’s then-current group, was described by the officer who conducted the investigation as being “purely a figment of the imagination of Plantard.” While the group’s leader claimed that there were 3,245 members, there were in fact only four. The report went on to describe Plantard as being “one of those dotty, pretentious young men” who set up and ran fictitious groups such as these “in an effort to look important.

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