RLC Mayoral Race Heats Up

Andy Gough investigates one of the overlooked facts of the Rennes-le-Chateau mystery, in his new article "Curiosities of Louis de Coma and his Stations of the Cross".

Does the Pontil's Tomb appear in a second painting by Nicolas Poussin?

A Belgian Rennes-le-Château researcher by name of Beauseant, thinks it might in a version of 'Rest on the Flight to Egypt', an engraving of the original painting unfortunately now lost.

Check out Beauseant's great article HERE.

Researcher and first time author Maxwell N. Field has quietly produced some of the most original research in the study of Rennes-le Château in quite some time. His new book, The Carthusian Connection: The trail from the Cathars to Shugborough, takes us on a fascinating journey through the French Savoy. Along the way, we learn how the history of the Carthusians, Cistercians, Kinghts Templars and the French Merovingian kings relate to the greater Rennes-le Château mystery.

17 Questions Maxwell Field

Synopsis
In the fifties, a fifteen-year-old girl escapes from her dull, English life to the sun-drenched cobbles of provincial Europe. When she falls in love with an ancient but otherwise unremarkable bourgeois town she falls, too, for its favourite son. Both relationships will last a lifetime. Over the years, the woman returns again and again to the town, and her lover. She meets strange and wonderful people - including Jean Cocteau and Umberto Eco - and hears tales of visions, a phenomenally wealthy priest, a fabulous garden and a beautiful Frenchwoman. The priest is Abbe Sauniere, of Rennes-le-Chateau. Solving the mysteries surrounding his discoveries and sudden wealth have formed the basis of the modern Grail phenomenon - from blockbuster novels and movies to historical analysis and high-profile court cases. Cast as the detective in her own story, and in a series of dramatic twists and turns, the woman finds herself at the heart of a world she barely knew existed. People she has known for over fifty years, members of a secret society set up to protect Abbe Sauniere's legacy, are asking her to act as their messenger. She must take some of their most important secrets, and make them known. This is her story, and their secrets revealed. Rich with photographs, letters and historical documents, it fills in key gaps in one of the most compelling mysteries of all time. It is also a page-turning, true-life adventure set in a beautiful and ancient city, where nothing is as it first appears.

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Andy' Gough's 17 Questions featuring Patrice Chaplin

Rarely does a new twist to an old mystery come along quite like this. In her new book, City of Secrets, Patrice Chaplin opens the door to entirely new and compelling element of the Rennes-le-Château mystery; the Spanish connection, namely the Catalan capital of Girona.

A Man's Best friend by Corjan da Raaf

Forget the usual suspects. They’ve been done to death. Arcadia regular Corjan de Raaf takes us on a path less traveled; Abbé Eugène Grassaud, the best friend of Rennes-le-Château icon Bérenger Saunière. A priest’s closest friend, what better place to look for clues?