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Priory of Sion

FILE DATE 1956
CROSS-REFS 02
STATUS NEVER CLOSED
SUMMARY
A bloodline guarded for a thousand years — invented, records show, by a Frenchman in 1956. And yet.
FULL DOSSIER
The confirmed forgery at the heart of the grail industry: Pierre Plantard registered the Priory in 1956, planted the 'Dossiers Secrets' (parchments naming grand masters — Newton, da Vinci, Hugo) in the Bibliothèque nationale, and confessed under oath in 1993. 'Holy Blood, Holy Grail' built the bloodline thesis on it; Dan Brown built on them. The entry earns its node as the archive's cleanest demonstration of citogenesis: a fabricated society, laundered through real library catalogs into 'a thousand years of history,' still believed by millions who never met the court transcript.
SOURCES ON RECORD
01Plantard deposition, Pelat inquiry (1993)
02'Dossiers Secrets,' BnF
03BBC 'The History of a Mystery' (1996)
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