Pierre Sapling

Pierre Athanase Marie Sapling , born with Paris (7th) the March 18th 1920 and deceased with Doves (92 Hauts-de-Seine) the February 3rd 2000, is an author of French origin . Only sons resulting from a modest family (her parents are servants), it leaves the school at 17 years. Become Sacristain with the church Saint-Louis-in Antin, in the 9th district of Paris, it militates in various associations of extreme right-hand side what leads it to the foundation of various antijuifs groups such as French national Rénovation or Alpha Gallates . But it is also known to be the joint author in 1967 secret Dossiers of Henri Lobineau . Sapling thought a noble ascent through a genealogy - mérovingienne - manufactured on measurement and a whole series of names of loan to the wire of its life: “Varran de Verestra”, “Pierre De France”, “Chyren” and after 1975 “Pierre Sapling of Saint-Clearly”.

Alpha Gallates

The December 27th 1937, Plantard is 17 years old and becomes responsible for the movement Alpha Gallates . Its monthly bulletin of four pages which is called Vaincre - For a young knighthood - is published and distributed free only in six recoveries between September 1942 and February 1943. Sapling signs there articles as “Pierre De France” or “a Pierre Of France-Sapling”.

French national Restoration

In December 1940, Plantard says leader of French national Rénovation . April 21st, 1941, he writes with the Prefecture to inform it that its movement decided, with “the support of the German high ranking authorities, to take possession of the unoccupied room located at 22 place Malesherbes and rented with an English Jew, Mr. Shapiro”. The permission will be refused by the German authorities on September 3rd, 1941.

the Latin Academy

In 1947, Pierre Plantard gathers legal papers necessary to create another organization called the Latin Académie of which the goal is the historical research. It is a little later in the middle of years 1950 that Plantard starts to make car-promotion in the catholic circles as a Mérovingien descendant of Dagobert II and claiming with the throne of France.

The Priory of Sion

Sapling moves a time in Switzerland, close to the Lake Léman, and returns on the French side of the border in 1951, to be established with Annemasse (Haute-Savoie) as draftsman. It is at that time (June 8th, 1956) which a letter of the sub-prefecture of Saint-Julien-in-Genevese declares that in December 1953, Plantard was condemned to six months of prison for breach of trust. Released of prison, Plantard declares being the agent of a hidden organization: the Priory of Sion . It starts by depositing of them the statutes with the sub-prefecture of Saint-Julien-in-Genevese on May 7th, 1956, and will manufacture a series of false document later, the secret Dossiers of Henri Lobineau , deposited between 1964 and 1967 in an anonymous way at the National library of Paris and presented as the files of the Secret society.

End-of-life

In the years 1983-1984, Jean-Luc Chaumeil writer specialized in esotericism and historical enigmas disavows his functions of secretary of the Priory and reveals the past of Sapling. Sapling will resign of the Priory of Sion on July 10th, 1984. It however reappears in 1989 with a new mythology on the Priory, founded this time at Rennes-the-Castle in 1681. It draws up a new list of Large Masters where Roger-Patrice Pelat, former friend of François Mitterrand, deceased within the framework of an accounting scandal, is quoted there. In 1993, following the intervention of Roger-Rene Dagobert, the examining magistrate Thierry Jean-Pierre which inquires into this death will be brought to question Pierre Plantard and to discover at his place several documents presenting Plantard as being “truth King de France”. This one will acknowledge finally its imposture and will receive a warning not to be played more with French justice. Sapling remained isolated from 1993 until its death in 2000. Its remainders were incinerated when he died in February 2000.

Popular culture

In 1982, three English author: Henry Lincoln, Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh wrote the Crowned Enigma then the Message where they have several interviews with Pierre Plantard.
In the play of adventure the Knights of Baphomet left in 1996, a man named Plantard is made assassinate in the introduction.
In 2003, Dan Brown explicitly referred to the Prieuré of Sion in its work Da Vinci Code . It does one of its historical sources and mentions Pierre Plantard.
of them About 2005, Jean-Jaques Bedu written the source secret of Da Vinci Code where he speaks about a phone conversation which it had with Mr. Plantard.

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