Dossiers Secrets d'Henri Lobineau

The Dossiers Secrets d'Henri Lobineau ("Secret Files of Henri Lobineau" in English) is a 27-page document deposited in the Bibliothèque nationale de France on 27 April 1967. The document purports to represent a part of the history of the Priory of Sion. The section of the history is attributed to Pierre Plantard and Philippe de Cherisey. 13 of the 27 pages of the document are taken from another document of the same genre dating from 1964: Henri Lobineau's Généalogie des Rois Mérovingiens et Origine des diverses Familles Françaises et Etrangères de Souche Mérovingienne d’Après L’Abbé Pichon, le Docteur Hervé et les Parchemins de l’Abbé Saunière de Rennes-le-Château (Aude). That document also contains genealogy diagrams constructed on Pierre Plantard on a stencil-kit illustrating his claims of royal descent from the Merovingian king Dagobert II.^[1]

Apart from those 13 pages, Dossiers Secrets d'Henri Lobineau comprises the following material:

• An introduction to the document by an Edmond Albe
• Maps of France and a Merovingian genealogy from an unspecified scholarly book
• Newspaper clippings relating to the freedom of Occitania
• A spurious letter attributed to Noel Corbu relating to Emile Hoffet
• A spurious letter to Marius Fatin from the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers^[2]
• A list of the Grand Masters of the Priory of Sion
• A page from the journal Regnabit. That page itself may be a plagiarism of various paragraphs from Paul Le Cour's 1937 book, The Age of Aquarius
• An obituary of the priest M. L'abbe Geraud de Cayron

The documents were used as source material by Henry Lincoln (who appeared to be unaware that they were disputed as forgeries) for a series of BBC Two documentaries in the 1970s. Lincoln and two co-authors, Richard Leigh and Michael Baigent, again used the Dossiers as source material for the controversial 1982 publication of Holy Blood Holy Grail.

See also

• Rennes-le-Château

References

1. ^ Pierre Jarnac, Les Mystères de Rennes-le-Château: Mèlange Sulfureux (CERT, 1994).
2. ^ "We have contacted the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association in London, who confirmed that they did at the time have headed notepaper like that on which the letter was written. However they have no record in their files of any purchase of Hoffet's papers". Bill Putnam, John Edwin Wood, The Treasure of Rennes-le-Château: A Mystery Solved (Sutton Publishing, revised edition, 2005. ISBN 0 7509 4216 9).