It was in October 1996 that I entered an old bookshop in Valetta, the capital of Malta. Valetta is a beautifully enwalled city that still looks like the Knights Templar only left yesterday. I needed a book that could entertain me for a few hours on the flight back home to Holland. The book I bought was a small paperback copy of Holy Blood and the Holy Grail by Henry Lincoln, Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh. The book ultimately led me to the village of Rennes-le-Château in the French Languedoc. Like so many people before me I fell in love with the landscape, the history and the atmosphere of the place. I have been returning there ever since. While it’s not difficult to fill an average living room with books on the subject, I found it hard to find good sources on the internet. The majority of websites in the genre tend to be outdated, hard to navigate and sometimes downright ugly. I missed a place where an enthusiast, a serious researcher and everybody in between could go to hear both the old and the new insights. A place where pieces of the Rennes-le-Château puzzle lie waiting to be assembled. It is exactly that I am trying to achieve here. It’s an enormous task but one that I have thoroughly enjoyed so far. As you can see things got a bit out of hand. I don’t think this website will ever be finished. There’s too much stuff out there waiting to be discovered.

All the material on this website is copyrighted and cannot be used without my explicit permission, all you have to do is ask.

Please be aware that the content of this website is registered with the U.S. copyright office and legal steps will be taken when the copyright is breached.

About the drawings

The drawings used in the header of this website are fragments of the excellent comic book ‘Rennes-le-Château, le secret de l’Abbé Saunière by Antoine Captier and Michel Marot which can be bought from La Porte de Rennes.

About my sources

All the material posted on this website has been cleared by the rightful owners and or copyright holders where possible. In many cases specific references are made to the sources of the information in the topics. For the largest part, the information on display here is drawn from sources as close as possible to the heart of the Mystery of Rennes-le-Château. With that I mean the original works of serious research by Antoine Captier, Claire Corbu, René Descadeillas, Pierre Jarnac, Jacques Rivière+, Filip Coppens, Klaas van Urk, Franck Daffos, Putnam & Woods, Christian Doumergue, Isaac Ben Jacob and André Douzet. Only in second instance I draw on the sources I consider a bit further away like Gérard de Sède, Henry Lincoln, Michael Baigent, Patrice Chaplin, Karl Hammer-Kaatee, Schellenberger & Andrews and a very long list of other authors. Where possible I have consulted the original historical material by for example Paul Courrent, Abbé Lassère, Henri Boudet, Lous Fedie, Jacques Cholet, Ernest Cros and the Port Royal archives. The internet sources I visit most frequently are the enormously elaborate French and English websites of Société Perillos by Filip Coppens and André Douzet, the French Rennes-le-Chateau-Archive by Franck Daffos and Jean-Pierre Garcia and Andrew Gough’s Arcadia for it’s unbiased opinions. Both are excellent sources of detailed research information.

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Thank you for visiting Rennes-le-Château Research

To me, the book of Rennes-le-Chateau is one without ending. The chapters write and extend themselves with every new insight. I hope you enjoy browsing this site as much as I enjoy to make and maintain it. Thank you for being here.

Take care | Corjan de Raaf