MENHIR OF PEYROLLES

• In this following article - L'Aude préhistorique. Notice sur les trouvailles faites dans le département de l'Aude et sur ses grottes, dolmens et menhirs, by M. G. Sicard.......... in the Bulletin de la Société d'études scientifiques de l'Aude for the year of 1900, there is a picture of the Menhir at Pontils/Peyrolles. 
• What I find fascinating is that this picture, contemporary with Sauniere and Boudet, which is identified by Sicard as the 'same as' the Arques Menhir, is 150 meters from the roadside i.e where the infamous Poussin Tomb is situated.  
• It is quite clear that the background landscape here does feature Rennes-le-Chateau. It is associated with a saying; la pierre levee Pontils regarde des attics et aux aux caves du roi. 

La pierre levee Pontils regarde des attics et aux aux caves du roi - taken from Franck Marie's Etude Critical Rennes-le-Chateau. And actually this is the view seen - which is the same view allegedly seen in the second version of Poussin's Les Bergers des Arcadie! It would be from the Menhir of Peyrolles, 150 meters from the Poussin tomb!

This is the area observed from the vicinity of the Menhir of Peyrolles in reality.

This mythology around the Menhir of Peyrolles/Boudet has its own history. You can read this HERE. 

Sicard writes: Peyrolles Menhir -- (Often attributed to Arques). By following the road that leads from Couiza to Arques, on the territory of the commune of Peyrolles, and arriving at the kilometre marker [borne] 65.5 km, if you turn to the left, you will see a megalith that stands about 150 metres from the road. This stone is made of ancient limestone: it is inclined SS W.. and only rises above the ground by 2metres 50. Its greatest width is 0.75 metres and its thickness is 0.60 metres. This monument is at the place called Les Pontils, on uncultivated land. (It is claimed that there is a natural or artificial cave under the megalith (Note de abbé Ancé).