Section 06
Who Wrote the Legend
The story has authors, and they are known. 5 entries, each one a document, a building or a claim, and who made it.
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01
Noël Corbu
The hotelier who bought the estate and told customers a treasure story, which the regional press then printed.
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02
The regional press
Local newspaper articles of the mid-1950s are the first appearance in print, and they can be dated precisely.
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03
Pierre Plantard
The man who elaborated the story into a lineage, and whose supporting documents were later shown to be his own composition.
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04
The deposited papers
Documents lodged in a national library gave the claims an appearance of provenance until their authorship was established.
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05
Philippe de Chérisey
The collaborator who admitted composing the supposedly ancient coded parchments.
