Ernest Cros
Railway engineer and amateur-archeologist who showed an interest in the antiquities of the Aude from 1880 onwards. He was a friend of Saunière and visited him on several ocassions. In 1924, Cros finally settled in Ginoles, close to Rennes-le-Château. His wife owned the Ginole baths. In 1928 he is said to have found what is now known as the Coumesourde-stone about which he reported in his work “Researches of M. chief engineer Ernest Cros, undertaken in the High Valley of the Aude, particularly during the years 1920-43″ There survives only a typewritten version that is supposed to have been copied from Cros’ original notes. Nobody ever appears to have seen the original. In good Rennes-le-Château fashion, the many papers that Cros assembled on his work were lost in a burglary in 1960.
In her book City of Secrets, Patrice Chaplin claims Cros and Saunière were involved in moving a 16-year old girl from Quillan to the Catalan city of Gerona around 1880. who became known as ‘the Frenchwoman’.
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Some of Cros’ research
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