1621

Guercino paints first version of Et In Arcadia Ego

6

Aug

1623

pontificate Urban VIII

1627

Nicolas Poussin paints his first version of les Bergers d’Arcadie

1639

Nicolas Poussin paints his second version of les Bergers d’Arcadie

14

May

1643

death of Louis XIII, reign of Louis XIV, le Roi Soleil

15

Sep

1644

pontificate Innocent X

23

Nov

1644

Registering of the testament of Francois Pierre d’Hautpoul by notaire Captier of Esperaza.

1645

a shepherd called Ignace Paris falls in a cave in search of a sheep and comes out with a large number of gold coins in his hat. He tells people he has discovered a room full of gold but when he refuses to tell where he is stoned to death on the charge of theft.

1646

baron d’Hautpoul has the church of Rennes-le-Château restored, supported by the bishop of Carcassonne: Nicolas Pavillon

1651

Bishop of Carcassonne, Nicolas Pavillon, gives a diamond ‘the size of an egg’ to the city of Toulouse for fighting the plague.

1653

discovery of the tomb of Childeric I in the Church of Saint Brice in Tournai. The treasure buried with him consists of a richly ornamented sword, a torse-like bracelet, jewels of gold and cloisonné enamel with garnets, gold coins, a gold bull’s head and a ring with the inscription CHILDERICI REGIS (‘of Childeric the king’), which identifies the tomb. Most special find are 300 golden bees, that Napoleon I later uses to decorate his mantle for the coronation as Emperor of the French

7

Apr

1655

pontificate Alexander VII

1659

François Charles Fouquet is nominated bishop of Narbonne  (brother of Nicolas Fouqet, Treasurer under Louis XIV)

19

nov

1665

death of Nicolas Poussin

20

Jun

1667

pontificate Clement IX

29

Apr

1670

pontificate Clement X

1670

Mgr. François Charles Fouquet has a St. Antoine tableau by David Teniers the Younger overpainted with a St. Augustine by Ambroise Frédeau

1673

death of Mgr. François Charles Fouquet, Louis XIV starts 4 years of trials to remove the Jansenist bishop Nicolas Pavillon from the diocese of Alet but doesn’t succeed

21

Sep

1676

pontificate Innocent XI

1685

Louis XIV buys the original of the second version of Poussin’s Les Bergers d’Arcadie from C.A. Herault. He puts it on display in his private quarters

5

Oct

1689

pontificate Alexander VIII, birth of François d’Hautpoul Rennes, marquis de Blanchefort

12

Jul

1691

pontificate Innocent XII

1694

entry in the parish registry of the burial of a high ranking individual in the church of Rennes-le-Château, registered by Abbé Vernat 

18th Century

23

Nov

1700

pontificate Clement XI

1705

death of Dame Anne Delsol, aged 75, (whose husband Marc Antoine Dupuy was the brother in law of Henry d’Hautpoul) buried in the church of Rennes-le-Château "au tombeau des seigneurs" (parish registry 1694-1726) The tombeau, according to the parish register is located "dans l’eglise de ce lieu au tombeau des Seigneurs qui est au pres du Balustre" (the same wooden pillar in which a glass tube with parchment was found in July 1887)

1715

death of Louis XIV, reign of Louis XV, le Bien Aimé

8

May

1721

pontificate Innocent XIII

1724

death of messire Henry du Venret buried in the church of Rennes-le-Château "au tombeau des seigneurs" (parish registry 1694-1726)

1724

Abbé Bernard becomes curé of Rennes-le-Château

29

May

1724

pontificate Benedict XIII

12

Jul

1730

pontificate Clement XII

1732

1736

Abbé Jean Bigou becomes curé of Rennes-le-Château

17

Aug

1740

pontificate Benedict XIV

1748

Admiral George Baron Anson commissions the Shepherd’s Monument at Shugnborough Hall, UK

 15

 May

1753

sudden death of François d’Hautpoul-Rennes, seigneur of Rennes-le-Château, Marquis de Blanchefort in the house of Grégoire de Fourn. He is buried in the Cathédrale St-Martin in Limoux, his heart is buried in Notre Dame de Marceille. Both graves have disappeared.

6

Jul

1758

pontificate Clement XIII

19

May

1769

pontificate Clement XIV

10

May

1774

death of Louis XV, reign of Louis XVI

1774

Abbé Antoine Bigou becomes curé of Rennes-le-Château

15

Feb

1775

pontificate Pius VI

1776

death of Abbé Jean Bigou in Rennes-le-Château

17

Jan

1781

death of Marie de Nègre d’Ables, Dame d’Hautpoul, Marquise Blanchefort. She is buried in the cemetery of Rennes-le-Château.

1791

Abbé Jean Antoine Camp becomes curé of Rennes-le-Château

31

Jul

1791

start of the French Revolution

10

Aug

1792

fall of Louis XVI

Sep

1792

clandestine emigration of Antoine Bigou and Jean-Pierre Cauneille (priest of Rennes-les-Bains) to Spain following the last bishop of Alet-les-Bains, Charles de la Cropte de Chanterac

21

Jan

1793

execution of Louis XVI

21

Mar

1794

death of Abbé Antoine Bigou in exile, allegedly in Spain

5

Apr

1794

execution of Danton

28

Jul

1794

execution of Robespierre

10

Nov

1799

end of the First Republic, Napoleon Bonaparte declares himself First Consul

19th Century

17

Jan

1800

oppression of royalist revolt in the Vendee

14

Mar

1800

pontificate Pius VII

1803

Abbé Marsan becomes curé of Rennes-le-Château

1804

Napoleon Bonaparte declares himself Emperor of the French people

1805

Abbé Rouger becomes curé of Rennes-le-Château

1812

tragic end of Napoleon I’s Russian campaign

1814

abdication of Napoleon I, exile to Elba

20

Mar

1815

Napoleon I returns to power, start of the One Hundred Days

18

Jun

1815

defeat of Napoleon I at Waterloo, second abdication and exile to St Helena

1815

reign of Louis XVIII

1820

Abbé Sabarthes becomes curé of Rennes-le-Château

1822

Louis de Coma is born in Foix

1823

Abbé Sadourny becomes curé of Rennes-le-Château

28

Sep

1823

pontificate Leo XII

1824

death of Louis XVIII, reign of Charles X

31

Mar

1829

pontificate Pius VIII

19

Jul

1830

the Virgin Mary appears to Catherine Labouré in the Rue du Bac in Paris

29

Jul

1830

abdication of Charles X, reign of Louis Philippe de Bourbon, le Roi Citoyen (the citizen king)

2

Feb

1831

pontificate Gregory XVI

1832

French historian Jean Pierre Jacques Auguste de Labouisse-Rochefort publishes ‘Voyages à Rennes-les-Bains’, written in 1803. Labouisse-Rochefort compares the landscape of Rennes-les-Bains with Arcadia 

1832

Jean Pierre Jacques Auguste de Labouisse-Rochefort becomes accepted as a member of the illustrious Arcadian Academy of Rome

1832

Abbé Pagès becomes curé of Rennes-le-Château

1834

Abbé Blanc becomes curé of Rennes-le-Château

1836

Abbé Pons becomes curé of Rennes-le-Château

16

Nov

1837

birth of Jean-Jacques Henri Boudet in Quillan

1840

birth of Edmond Boudet, brother of Henri Boudet

16

Jun

1846

pontificate Pius IX

Sep

1846

the Virgin Mary appears to Mélanie Calvet in La Salette

24

Feb

1848

2nd revolution in Paris, Louis Philippe abdicates and the Second Republic is proclaimed

10

Dec

1848

Louis Napoleon elected President de la République

1851

Coup d’Etat of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon III), proclamation of the Second Empire

11

Apr

1852

Berenger Saunière is born in Montazels as the first of 7 children of the Major

1855

Alfred Saunière is born in Montazels as the second of 7 children of the Major

1856

Louis de Coma starts construction of the Carol Estate, a copy of Getshemane funded with money from the Comte de Chambord (4.000 Fr)

Feb

the Virgin Mary appears to Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes

1860

a piece of gold weighing over 50 kilo’s is found near Bezu

25

Dec

1861

Henri Boudet is ordained a priest

1

Jan

1862

Henri Boudet becomes the cure of Durban

16

Jun

1862

Henri Boudet becomes the cure of Caunes (Minervois)

1

Nov

1866

Henri Boudet becomes the cure of Frestes

12

Aug

1868

birth of Marie Dénarnaud

21

May

1870

Napoleon III capitulates 

31

Aug

1870

French Republic is proclaimed, start of the Third Republic

17

Feb

1871

Thiers President de la République

1

Jul

1872

death of Jean Vié curé of Rennes-les-Bains

1872

Henri Boudet becomes curé of Rennes-les-Bains

1873

Thiers resigns, Maréchal de Mac-Mahon President de la République after a failed attempt to restore the monarchy by Henry V, Comte de Chambord

1873

start of the great depression

Feb

1876

20

Feb

1878

pontificate Leo XIII

1879

Abbé Cézac becomes curé of Rennes-le-Château, resignation of Mac-Mahon, July Grévy President de la République

16

Jul

1879

Saunière becomes chaplain of Alet-les-Bains

1880

discovery of a Neolithic graveyard, proving men’s presence in the area for at least 3.000 years

1880

Henri Boudet finishes his book La Vraie Langue Celtique et le Cromlech de Rennes-les-Bains

1881

Mgr. Billard becomes Bishop of Carcassonne

1881

Abbé Mocquin becomes curé of Rennes-le-Château

16

Jun

1882

Saunière becomes curé of Le Clat

8

Feb

1884

Papal Encyclical ‘Nobilissima Gallorum Gens’ (‘To the Most Noble French Nation’, On the Religious Question in France), addressed to the Cardinals, Archbishops and Bishops of France, mentioning that France was alienating itself from its past Catholic Traditions and that it had to do all it could to restore those values

1884

Abbé Croc becomes curé of Rennes-le-Château

1855

Louis de Coma completes construction of the Carol Estate or Monastère de Carol

1

Jun

1885

Saunière becomes curé of Rennes-le-Château and writes: La croix du milieu existe, mais il n’y a pas d’allées "

4

Oct

1885

Saunière preaches against the Republicans. He supposedly asked his parishioners to vote for the ‘Union of the Right’, dedicated to the reversal of the anticlerical legislations of the Republican Government and towards the restoration of the French Monarchy (this Party was comprised of a coalition of the Conservatives, the Bonapartists and the Monarchists) with the Monarchists being the most successful part of the coalition during the 1885 elections winning the most Seats

30

Oct

1885

Mgr Billard receives a complaint from René Goblet, the Minister of Religion relating to the ‘reprehensible behaviour’ of four clerics during the electoral period of 1885 and asking for their transfers

15

Nov

1885

Mgr Billard responds by stating that Saunière has no intention of attacking the Government, but has the right as the Defender of Religion to read an article from ‘La Semaine Religieuse de Carcassonne’, to give advice to the voters of his parish in the presence of anti-Christian anti-Concordat programmes of several candidates of the deputation

2

Dec

1885

Saunière is suspended because of his anti-republican speech, René Goblet, the Minister of Religion, writes to Mgr Billard stating that he has suspended four priests in the Rennes-le-Château region: B. Saunière, curate at Rennes-le-Château; Tailhan, curate at Roullens; Jean, curate at Bourriège and Delmas, vicar at Alet 

2

Dec

1885

an article appeared in ‘La Semaine Religieuse de Carcassonne’, criticising the suspension of the four priests by the Minister of Religion, mentioning: ‘To the long list of priests who became victim of a systematic persecution since the last electoral period, are to be added the names of four priests of the diocese: Jean – Tailhan – Delmas- Saunière. M. the Prefect of the Aude has notified them a Ministerial decision that suppresses their salary, from 1st December 1885. Their Bishop opposed in vain a firm and dignified justification to the accusations carried against them; there was sorrow to see that M. the Minister of Religion didn’t take any account of it. The blabbers triumphed. Can they understand the gravity of their fault, seeing the consequences in their respective dioceses of their malevolent denouncement…?’ 

1886

Henri Boudet’s La Vraie Langue Celtique is published by Francois Pomie, the printer to the Bishop of Carcassonne, 500 copies were produced for a fee of 5382 gold francs. Of the 500 copies, only 98 were sold, 100 being given to libraries and institutions and a further 200 given away by Boudet as gifts to friends and interested people who visited Rennes-les-Bains to take the cure

May

1886

Saunière receives a touching love letter from an anonymous lady

1

Jul

1886

Saunière returns to Rennes le Château as curé

1886

Saunière gives a valuable chalice to his friend Abbé Grassaud

27

Jul

1887

Saunière installs a new altar in his church from the firm Maison Monna in Toulouse for 770FF. The altar is paid for by Madame Cavailhé de Coursan. The old altar is transported to the presbytery. It will later serve in his personal chapel at Villa Bethania after his suspension by Mgr. Beausejour.

Jul

1887

Antoine Captier, carilloneur of the church finds a small glass tube with a rolled up parchment that he gives to Sauniere

30

Sep

1887

Saunière installs new stained glass window ‘blue apples’ 1350 FF

Dec

1887

Grévy resigns, Sadi Carnot President de la République

1888

Emergency reparations are carried out in the churched. The conseil de fabrique lends the priest 518FF

1889

Mgr. Billard visits Rennes-le-Château, thanks Saunière and asks him to continue his good works

27

Jan

1889

attempt at Coup d’Etat of Georges Boulanger

May

1889

Saunière is nominated curé desservant d’Antugnac

1890

Louis de Coma is nominated Abbé of the Church of Mary Magdalene in Baulou

Jan

1890

the village council of Rennes-le-Château approves Saunière’s request to refurbish the public square before his church

Jun

1890

Saunière no longer curé desservant d’Antugnac

Feb

1890

Aug

1890

Saunière orders a new pulpit

21

Nov

1890

Saunière stays with Alexandrine Marre-Dénarnaud

Dec

1890

1891

Mgr. Billard inherits 1.200.000FF of Victorine Sabatier of Coursan.

1

Jun

1891

Gaudissard becomes curé of Antugnac

21

Jun

1891

24 children of Rennes-le-Château do a mission tour through the village with all parishers present, carryring a statue of Notre Dame the Lourdes that is later installed in the gardens of the Vierge. The statue is placed on an upside-down visigoth pillar of the former church altar and is inscribed: "Mission 1891"

9

Sep

1891

Saunière’s Journal: "carrelage de la nef et du remplacement de la chaire"

21

Sep

1891

Saunière’s Journal: "de Granes. Découverte d’un tombeau, le soir pluie"

22

Sep

1891

Work in the church is suspended

28

Sep

1891

Saunière’s Journal: "voyage à Carcassone"

29

Sep

1891

Saunière’s Journal: "Vu curé de Névian-Chez Gélis-Chez Carrière-Vu Cros et Secret "

30

Sep

1891

Saunière’s Journal: "Mort de Boulanger"

6

Oct

1891

Saunière’s Journal: "Visite de 4 confrères"

14

Oct

1891

Saunière’s Journal: "entente avec les nouveaux maçons"; the works in the church continue but with a new group of workers

20

Oct

1891

Saunière pays for a new pulpit 750 FF

20

Oct

1891

Saunière pays a bas-reliëf for the front porch 150 FF

4

Dec

1891

start installation of the new front porch (until the 20th)

29

Dec

1891

Saunière’s Journal: "Vais au Bal, douleur des reins" Sauniere often goes to this place to collect rocks for his grotto

Feb

1892

Sauniere has a debt of FFR 105 with a certain Leontine et Adolphine and has FFR 80,65 in his ‘fonds secrets’ (savings)

2

Mar

1892

Saunière allegedly visits Paris. He attends mass at Saint-Sulpice, gives two of the parchments to abbe Bieil and Emile Hoffet and orders three reproductions of paintings from the Louvre

19

Apr

1892

Saunière’s Journal: "retour de Carcassonne – Drame le soir – Marie rentre chez elle"

22

Apr

1892

Saunière’s Journal: "beau temps – Marie continue à m’apporter les repas"

1892

Sauniere and his servant Marie Dénarnaud are seen digging in the churchyard and cemetery in the middle of the night on may ocassions.

Dec

1892

Saunière makes various trips for longer periods of time

1893

Saunière buys new confessional 700 FF

17

Jan

1893

Mgr. Billard buys the church Notre-Dame de Marceille. He buys it on personal account and pays it out of his own pockets

24

Jun

1894

Assasination of Sadi Carnot, Casimir-Perier President de la Republique (former general councillor of the Aube)

1894

Saunière puts an iron door in front of the cemetery 220.80 FF.

12

Mar

1895

official complaint against Saunière’s nightly excavations in the churchyard, Saunere stops his excavations

14

Jul

1895

fire in Rennes-le-Château, Saunière refuses access to his well

1895

resignation of Perier, Félix Faure President de la République

1896

end of the great depression

3

Jan

1897

death of Abbé Emile Cayron, curé de Saint Laurent de la Cabrerisse

11

Feb

1897

the cross of the Calvaire is erected

4

Mar

1897

Monsieur Castex starts the painting inside the church with 4 workers

6

Jul

1897

Eglise Madeleine inaugurated by Mgr. Billard. Also present: R. P. Mercier.

Sep

1897

Antoine Gelis retreats to Carcasonne where he writes a ‘treasure document’. With the help of this documents, the detectives that investigate his death find large sums of money back.

1

Nov

1897

Antoine Gelis, curé of Coustassa is brutally murdered. His body is put down in the traditional burial position of a templar.

Nov

1897

After his burial the 3rd of November, the judge charged with the investigations of his dead recovers 13.000 goldfrancs with the help of Gelis’ own treasure document. It is said Saunière has a connection to his death.

May

1898

Saunière rents a horsecar in Lyon

Dec

1898

Saunière buys terrains around his church in the name of Marie Dénarnaud

Feb

1899

resignation of Faure, Emile Loubet President de la République

16

Oct

1899

the function of "personnat" as proposed by Mgr. Billard is refused to Saunière by the Diocese after investigations into his life

Dec

1899

Saunière receives a letter that his shipment of 50 liters of rum from Jamaica is late.

20th Century

1900

the village council approves Saunière’s request to build a ‘caveau’ to bury him and all future priests of Rennes-le-Château

May

1901

start of the construction of Villa Bethania (finished in 1905)

Jul

1901

start of the building of a caveau (crypt) for Saunière and the future priests of Rennes-le-Château

3

Dec

1901

death of Mgr. Billard in the Monastery of Prouilhe, whilst in the process of being suspended for ‘having administered the assets of his diocese in the most irregular fashion and for having contracted staggering debts, which were completely unjustified

1902

Mgr. Beuvain de Beauséjour becomes bishop of Carcassonne

1902

Saunière loses sight on one eye, which is replaced with a glass eye

1903

Tomb of Arques (les Pontils) built by Jean Galibert at Serres

20

Jul

1903

death of Pope Leo XIII (at the age of 93)

24

Jul

1903

construction work is suspended for a week to receive Saunière’s family

Aug

1903

Saunière has financial troubles and is unable to pay for the works

4

Aug

1903

pontificate Pius X (after cardinal Rampolla has been vetoed by the Habsburgs)

1903

start of the construction of Le Tour Magdala (finished in 1906)

28

Aug

1903

The architect Tiburce Caminade writes a letter to Saunière that he needs another 4.5 cubic metres of stones to finish le Tour et la Tourelle: he can’t perform miracles

19

Sep

1905

Alfred Saunière (brother of) dies from the effects of abuse of alcohol

1905

split of church and state in France

1906

Pope Pius X condemns the split between church and state, resignation of Loubet, Armand Fallières President de la République

1906

Lazarists leave Notre Dame de Marceille

1906

Bulletin SESA appears with a transcript of the tomb of Marie de Nègre d’Ables

19

Nov

1906

Mgr. Beauséjour visits Rennes-le-Château

1907

Saunière starts to build a very serious collection of stamps amounting up to 100.000 pieces at the time of his death

24

Mar

1907

Saunière, signs rental agreement for the presbytery for 5 years 20 FF per year

5

May

1907

death of Edmund Boudet (at the age of 67)

1908

Workmen discover a giant mass-grave while working on the access road to town. It is several hundreds meters long and contains sic to eight layers of skeletons from the time of the Albigensian Crusade

1908

much of the year is dedicated to Saunière’s vast library in de Tour Magdala, Henri Badet, a book’s expert from Castenaudary is hired for 3 months to help him organize his collection

9

Jan

1909

sudden death of Gaudissard, curé at Atignac (at the age of 49)

15

Jan

1909

Saunière receives replacement to Coustouges, with one week’s notice

28

Jan

1909

Saunière resigns as curé of Rennes-le-Château

9

Jul

1909

Abbé Marty arrives to replace Saunière

22

Apr

1910

Saunière orders a buste of himself to be made by maison Monna de Toulouse for 1.600 FFR

27

May

1910

Mgr. de Beauséjour starts official investigations into Saunière’s finances

16

Jul

1910

Saunière fails to show up before the bishop’s court

23

Jul

1910

Saunière suspended for one month

5

Nov

1910

Saunière finally appears in court and is sentenced to 10 days in a monastery and having to produce the sources of his wealth a month later

5

Dec

1910

Saunière refuses to reveal sufficient evidence for the sources of his spending and is sentenced, he is no longer allowed to say masses

14

Nov

1911

Louis de Coma is found dead lying in his bed, the Carol estate becomes property of the church

1

Feb

1911

Saunière is relieved of the priesthood ‘suspens a divinis’

1912

Eglise Notre-Dame de Marceille is made a Basilique by Pius X

1913

Credit Foncier de France estimates Saunière’s posessions to be worth 18.000 Francs, resignation of Fallières, Raymond Poincaré President de la République

1914

the remaining 102 copies of La Vraie Langue Celtique are destroyed, with Boudet’s consent. This is said to have been at the insistence of the Bishop de Beausejour, and deprived Boudet of his income

30

Apr

1914

Henri Boudet is no longer able to pay the rent for his presbetery and returns to his family home in Axat

3

Sep

1914

pontificate Benedict XV

1

Feb

1915

sudden death of Abbé Rescanière, successor of Henri Boudet in Rennes-les-Bains (at the age of 47)

30

Mar

1915

death of Henri Boudet from intestinal cancer (at the age of 78)

1916

goes on pilgrimage to Lourdes

17

Jan

1917

Saunière is found by Marie Dénarnaud, lying on the Belvedere. He has been lying there for some time, after he has suffered a stroke on his way to the Tour Magdala.

Jan

1917

Saunière requests to confess feeling his end is very near after a heart attack. Young Abbé Rivière of Esperaza who is summoned to hear his confession refuses Saunière the extreme unction while alive. This last will only be administered to him post-mortem

22

Jan

1917

Saunière dies after a series of heart attacks. His last words are ‘Jean 23′ (Jean Vingt-Trois)

24

Jan

1917

Saunière is buried at 10:00 am by Abbé Rivière curé par intérim de Rennes-le-Château

25

Mar

1917

Marie Dénarnaud extends the rent of the presbytery with another 9 years

12

Jun

1917

Marie Dénarnaud pays for Saunière’s coffin

1917

Madame James de Montazels, a niece of Sauniere allegedly inherits the parchments

18

Feb

1920

Paul Deschanel President de la République

1920

Alexandre Millerand President de la République

6

Feb

1922

pontificate Pius XI

1924

Gaston Doumergue President de la République

1929

a half melted golden statuette is found in the region of Rennes-le-Château

1929

German author Otto Rahn settles in Lavelanet and spends three months to systematically explore the ruins of Montségur and the surrounding mountain grottoes

1931

Paul Doumer President de la République

1931

Pamphlet version of Elise Tisseyre’s 1906 article deposited in the municipal  library of Carcassonne by a ‘Marty’

1931

Otto Rahn discovers chambers deep in the grottoes of Sabarthes of which the walls are covered with symbols characteristic of the Knights Templar, side by side with emblems of the Cathars. One intriguing image carved into the stone wall of a grotto is clearly a drawing of a lance. This depiction immediately suggests the bleeding lance that appears over and over again in the Arthurian legends

1932

Albert Lebrun President de la République

1934

Otto Rahn publishes ‘Kreuzzug gegen Gral’ (Crusade Against the Grail)

1936

Otto Rahn joins the Waffen SS Heritage Bureau ‘the Ahnenerbe’ (not voluntarily according to some)

Jun

1936

Otto Rahn and the SS go to Iceland for research.

1937

Otto Rahn publishes ‘Luzifers Hofgesind’ (Lucifer’s Courtiers) 

1937

Otto Rahn falls in disgrace with the Nazis and is temporarily put to work in Dachau. It is said he is a homosexual or Jewish

2

Mar

1939

pontificate Pius XII

13

Mar

1939

Otto Rahn commits suicide in the Tyrolean mountains in the manner of the Cathar Heretics

1940

Maréchal Philippe Pétain Head of State (during the second world war)

16

Mar

1944

the German Nazis fly swastika and Celtic cross patterns over the ruins of Montségur, 700 years after its fall

1946

Charles de Gaulle President de la République

22

Jul

1946

Marie Dénarnaud sells the entire property to the Corbu family and lives with them from that day

1947

Vincent Auriol President de la République

1948

the library of Emile Hoffet is allegedly acquired by the International League of Antiquarian booksellers

29

Jan

1953

death of Marie Dénarnaud in Rennes-le-Château

1954

René Coty President de la République

15

Mar

1955

the Villa Bethania is transformed in a hotel and opens as the Hotel La Tour

12

Jan

1956

Noel Corbu publishes the story of Sauniere in regional paper Depeche du Midi

1956

Louis’de Coma’s Monastère de Carol in Baulou is destroyed with dynamite by Henri Baure by order of the diocese before he can buy the domain 

28

Oct

1958

pontificate John XXIII

21

Jun

1963

pontificate Paul VI

1965

Madame James de Monazel allegedly sells Sauniere’s parchments to Kapitein Roland Stanmore en Sir Thomas Frazier, Charles de Gaulle President de la République

2

Jul

1966

the International League of Antiquarian booksellers (who bought Sauniere’s library, send a letter to Fatin Karius, archeologist in Rennes-le-Château claiming that they have found 2 documents in Emile Hoffet’s library, signed by Blanche de Castille, attached to the testament of Francois Pierre d’Hautpoul, registered by notaire Captier in Esperaza, 23rd November 1644. The documents prove that Dagobert II left a son Sigisbert IV that came to Rennes-le-Château in 681. 

1967

Gérard de Sède publishes l’Or de Rennes ou la vie insolite de Bérenger Saunière

1969

Georges Pompidou President de la République