The Priory of Sion

The author, Dan Brown, claims before he begins his novel that the following is fact: “The Priory of Sion-a European secret society founded in 1099-is a real organization. In 1975 Paris’s Bibliotheque Nationale discovered parchments known as Les Dossiers Secrets, identifying numerous members of the Priory of Sion, including Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Leonardo da Vinci.

Further research into the origin of the Priory of Sion:

-The Priory of Sion was created in 1956 by an eccentric, Pierre Plantard.

-Plantard and associate, Philippe de Ch?risey, fabricated a series of documents, including Les Dossiers Secrets, and planted them in various French libraries.

-The false documents created a false history for the Priory, including a false inception date of 1099 and a false list of members, including Sir Isaac Newton.

-Ch?risey publicly admitted the documents were forgeries in 1971.

-Plantard subsequently admitted they were forgeries as well.

-In 1989 Plantard fabricated a new history of the Priory of Sion, now founded in 1681, and supplied a new list of Grand Masters.

-Plantard ended up in court in 1993, where he admitted his hoax.

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• Jan says:

  May 22, 2006 at 12:18 am

  How is it possible that this revelation has been left out of Dan Brown’s impeccible research? Are people really that desperate to believe in something? Or is it all explained away by Dan Brown as another conspiratorial cover up by THE CHURCH. I find all this hype and furor about the DVC to be a bit scarry only because people are refusing to look at all the facts and really check out the actual historical record before jumping on the bandwagon. No wonder the apostle Paul praised the Bereans for not just believing everything he preached to them but they searched it out for the truth themselves in the scriptures. Which fyi were the hebrew scriptures at that point.