A nineteenth century French priest discovers something in his mountain village at the foot of the Pyrenees, which enabled him to amass and spend a fortune of millions of pounds. The tale seems to begin with buried treasure and then turn into an unprecedented historical detective story - a modern Grail ques leading back through cryptically coded parchments, secret societies, the Knights Templar, the Cathar heretics of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and a dynasty of obscure French kings deposed more than 1,300 years ago ...
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A nineteenth century French priest discovers something in his mountain village at the foot of the Pyrenees, which enabled him to amass and spend a fortune of millions of pounds. The tale seems to begin with buried treasure and then turn into an unprecedented historical detective story - a modern Grail ques leading back through cryptically coded parchments, secret societies, the Knights Templar, the Cathar heretics of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and a dynasty of obscure French kings deposed more than 1,300 years ago. The author's conclusions are persuasive at the core is not material riches but a secret - a secret of explosive and controversial proportions, which radiates out from the little Pyrenees village to encompass the whole of Western civilization. Its repercussions stretch all the way to contemporary politics and the entire edifice of the Christian faith. It involves nothing less than the Holy Grail.
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Near fine in Near fine jacket. Near fine condition. Century, 2005. First UK edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2). Large format black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, small nick on the edges of the cover) with Dj(a couple of creases and small nicks on the edges of the Dj cover), both in near fine condition. Illustrated with colour, b/w photos, drawings, maps. Nice and clean pages as new with a small mark on the outer edges, a couple of small creases on the edges of the pages, small pencil mark impression on the edges of the first blank page of the book.511pp including Postscript, appendices 1 to 4, bibliography, notes and references, index. Price un-clipped. A collectable first edition. Please note: This is heavy book(approx 1.8 Kg).
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