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Pierre PlantardPierre Athanase Marie Plantard (1920-February 3,2000) was the mastermind behind the Priory of Sion hoax. The Priory of Sion was originally founded in 1956, when Plantard worked as a draughtsman for a company in the town of Annemasse, in the Haute-Savoie region of south-east France. Devoted to the "Defence and Liberty of Low-Cost Housing", the association attacked the property developers of Annemasse through its journal Circuit. He became an impostor who claimed to be a Merovingian pretender to the throne of France during the early 1960s, his position being influenced by an article that he had read by Louis Saurel in the French magazine Les Cahiers de l'Histoire Number 1 (1960). M Plantard claimed to have descended from Dagobert II. Influenced by the hotelier Noel Corbu who claimed that a treasure had been discovered by the previous occupant of his hotel, Father Brenger Saunire. Plantard claimed that this treasure included parchments that substantiated his descent from Dagobert. Pierre Plantard began writing a manuscript and produced "parchments" (created by his friend, Philippe de Cherisey) that Saunire had supposedly discovered whilst renovating his church. These forged documents purportedly showed the survival of the Merovingian line of Frankish kings. Plantard manipulated Saunire's activities at Rennes-le-Chteau in order to "prove" his claims relating to the Priory of Sion. In September, 1993, Plantard claimed that Roger-Patrice Pelat had once been grandmaster of the Priory of Sion. Pelat was a friend of the then-President of France Franois Mitterrand and center of a scandal involving French Prime Minister Pierre Brgovoy. A French court ordered a search of Plantard's home, turning up many documents, including some proclaiming Plantard the true king of France. Under oath, Plantard admitted that he had fabricated everything, including Pelat's involvement with the Priory of Sion.http://priory-of-sion.com/psp/id70.html Plantard lived in obscurity until his death on 3 February, 2000, in Paris. External links and references Plantard, Pierre Plantard, Pierre Plantard, Pierre Plantard, Pierre
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