On an old website dedicated to Rennes-le-Chateau is the following entry, according to which the latest research by Pierre Jarnac and Franck Daffos suggest that it was Corbu who found 'some parchments [mind you, it was posted originally in 2007!] viz;
"The Large and Small parchments that are at the heart of the enigma are now believed to be copies of the original. The latest research by Franck Daffos and Pierre Jarnac suggests that Noel Corbu, who bought the Saunière estate from Marie Dénarnaud in 1946, found some parchments between the Abbé’s papers. After failing to decode them he sold them to two englishmen. Not before photographing and copying them though. Serious researchers like Antoine Captier, Jean Pellet and Gérard Dutriat have attested they have seen the original photos from Corbu’s time. You have to remember Corbu already talked about the parchments long before De Sède’s book came out. It is now believed Corbu allowed Plantard and the Chérisey to make carbon copies of them. They worked them into the parchments we know today and added in some simple codes like the raised letters in the small parchments that would support their claim to the French throne.
Ironically again, Plantard came very close to the original documents and sources of the mystery. The Priory of Sion he tried to legitimise using them was certainly a hoax".
In respect of Corbu, he wrote an unpublished text before 1965 which was a publicity document prepared by Corbu around 1955. It is not a manuscript, nor has it been signed or deposited. Pierre Jarnac also has a copy and it appears in his bibliography for 1962-64. In this document Corbu states that it is Blanche of Castille who 'created the Parchments'. He wrote;
"For much of the night Blanche of Castille wrote. She indicated where the treasure was situated and how to get to it by several places and how to avoid the traps. Then she changed these indications, muddling them up, mixing them with some verses from the Gospel, and took as the key the first letters of each line of an inscription, which was found on a tombstone in the cemetery. This done, she slipped the parchments into some wooden rollers, which she had sent to the chaplain. She explained to him that these rollers were to be hidden in the church. ... The queen, the chaplain and a little monk in the château church, dedicated to St. Marie-Madeleine, slid aside the stone, which was used for the altar, and hid the rollers inside one of the pillars, which was hollow...
1252 - Blanche of Castille was about to die. Peace reigned in the kingdom; with superhuman courage, she had put an end to the revolt. But the effort was too great - and then there were dreadful memories that came to haunt her. The supreme test came when she caught leprosy and the waters of Rennes-les-Bains could do nothing to cure her sickness. Now resigned and at peace, she waited for death. To a faithful servant, she gave a case for her son, St. Louis, telling him where to find the parchments. A useless precaution, really, as St Louis knew where the treasure was.
1270 – Tunis – St. Louis died of the plague. He had his son Philippe come to him and confided the secret of the Royal Treasure to him.
1285 – Philippe the Hardi was ill. All his troops were sick, and also he was being harried unceasingly by the men of Aragon. With difficulty he managed to reach Perpignan with the remains of his army. Half-unconscious, he died. He had no time to pass on the secret of the Royal Treasure to his son, the future Philippe le Bel. No-one knew any more where the Treasure of France was to be found. King Philippe le Bel was soon forced to make false money, because he did not know the whereabouts of the Royal Treasure".
According to Corbu the name of Rhedae was called Rennes-le-Château in honour of this Blanche.
One of the replies to the original post of 2007 at the above cited website is as follows - which I reproduce below just for interest;
"A. Edward Moch on June 17, 2008 at 00:06 said:
Getting my attention in 1982, I read the book “Holy Blood Holy Grail”. Shortly afterward, I wrote a letter about March 1982 to Author, Michael Biagent.
In my letter, I inquired with the best of my awareness at that time about the mystery of the secrets surrounding their discoveries (ie: Priory of Sion) coverup and nature of the direction of the book… trying to discern the fact from the myth?
On june 1982, I received a letter from Mr. Baigent. Dated May 28th, 1982
Dear M. Moch;
“Where did you hear the rumor ?”
Yours Sincerely;
Michael F. Baigent
Shortly… I responded back to Mr. Baigent about my awareness and knowledge of some of the mysteries and secrets. Most of what I additionally shared was helpful in Mr. Baigent’s follow-up research. Though I received no direct additional responce or no credit for the additional information. The followup book “The Messianic Legacy”, had some of that additional information I shared with Mr. Baigent. It was collective in nature… and helped to verify and question and support other information that was in the original “Holy Blood Holy Grail” book.
The information provided by Pierre Saint Claire became obvious… but the question of “The Priory Of Sion” may have a seperate twist after all?
Regarding “The Priory GM List” if it’s correct, it opens in my opinion that the Grand Master list is correct?
In a Biograpgy on Former French President, Leon Blum. It is alledged that when he (Blum) was eight years old, he was invited with his classmates to a special 80th birthday party of none other that French writer/patriot, Victor Hugo. After he (Blum) recited a poem he wrote in Hugo’s honour, he was very impressed by the young Leon.
In a comment that seemed like a destiny for Leon Blum, Hugo felt that the young man would become very important in the future, and that he would go very far. Some years later… Blum as a young journalist, would meet, and become friends with no other than famous French music-composer, Claude De Bussy.
Both Hugo and De Bussy are listed as former Grand Masters of The Sion Priory! A fact that I didn’t fully disclose to Mr. Baigent, that as French President, Leon Blum’s Personal Secretary was Jules S. Moch. Former French Premier-Statesman, was nicknamed “Cousin Jules”, related to President Blum, by way of Moch’s wife, Elaine Picard-Moch. Elaine Picard’s milestone was “The First Woman Lawyer of France”, a sort of modern day Joan of Arc of European woman’s rights movement. It is alledged in the past, that Picard’s Grand Mother (or Great Gradmother?) had a bookshop in Paris… where it became one of the main staging locations for “The French Revolution”.
In my opinion… between the facts and the fiction, Real and fraudulent information continues to pepper this subject and truth about “The Priory Of Sion”.
A. Edward Moch"