This week I said I would discuss what happened to the secret which the Marquise de Blanchefort confided to the Abbé Antoine Bigou before her death in January 1781 – a secret which terrified the priest. But, before I do that, a number of events need to be reconsidered. The first is that there seems […]
I apologise for not continuing my blogs for the last month. We have been away for three weeks – part of it exploring the Loire and Dordogne valleys in France. Then, when we got back, I found there was a pile of work waiting. However I have at last made an hour free to […]
Last week I told you about the Visigoth king Amalaric who may be buried in the crypt below the church at Rennes-le-Chateau. This week I will tell you about the last of the Merovingians who is also linked with Rennes. The Merovingians were the Frankish kings who became the rulers of most of what we […]
The present church at Rennes-le-Chateau which is dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalene was built on a site which had been occupied by an earlier chapel. That had been constructed by the Visigoths when they constructed the adjacent chateau, the remains of which still remain on the edge of the village overlooking the sheer drop to […]
In 2002 a team of American surveyors, using sophisticated depth-sounding equipment, carried out a survey of Rennes Church and confidently asserted that there was a large void under the nave – probably a vaulted crypt. The question is – how was it accessed? Excavations had already been authorised in the church in 1967 after a […]