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Rennes Le Chateau

Ian HamiltonIan Hamilton
edited January 2005 in Sinclair Miscellaneous
I have only recently been introduced to the mystery of Rennes Le Chateau (about a year ago when I bought a copy of The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail - an excellent book by the way, very well worth reading) and I am now obsessed with the legend. I was just thinking that it would make a great subject for s spectrum game (most likely an adventure). Does anyone else think so?

I am aware that there is a PC game based on the legend (Gabriel Knight 3 - Blood of the Sacred, Blood of The Damned) but I think it would be really amazing if there was a spectrum game.

Necros.
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  • EdEd
    edited January 2005
    Bloody hell Necros, are you my alter-ego or what? First Mercury Rev, and now Rennes-le-Chateau. I've been a sucker for these Templar legends since seeing Henry Lincoln on the Discovery Channel ages ago. And where on Earth did Dan Brown get the idea for "The Da Vinci Code", I wonder...?
  • ArjunArjun
    edited January 2005
    Wot I'd really like to know is, just how much of it is fact and how much is fiction?

    It's all really intruiguing stuff, and "Da Vinci Code" only whetted my appetite for more of the same.
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  • Ian HamiltonIan Hamilton
    edited January 2005
    On 2005-01-06 14:44, Arjun wrote:
    Wot I'd really like to know is, just how much of it is fact and how much is fiction?

    The same thing can be asked of the bible.
  • ArjunArjun
    edited January 2005
    On 2005-01-06 14:48, Necros wrote:

    The same thing can be asked of the bible.

    Yes, but since I know next to nothing about the bible (except the story of Jesus, of course) apart from the tantalising stuff Dan Brown talks about, I'm equally in the dark regarding it too.

    To rephrase my question: Is the Templar legend (or indeed the Da Vinci Code) based on any historical facts or is it just well written fiction?
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  • Ian HamiltonIan Hamilton
    edited January 2005
    Here's a link that contains some information.

    http://www.templarhistory.com/who.html

  • Alessandro TommasiAlessandro Tommasi
    edited January 2005
    The "da vinci code" was pretty much a ripoff of Lincoln's et al book... Same stuff used to spice up a chasing action. Lincoln's is more interesting, I think, because of all the documentation and suggestive myths. A bit slow at times.

    But by all means, avoid that Nicholas Cage movie...
  • Alessandro TommasiAlessandro Tommasi
    edited January 2005
    Besides, what other serious docs have you guys read about the Templars? I was hooked into them awhile ago, and read a bunch of stuff: M. Barber, P. Partner, and C. Bordonove to name a few. Even visited a pair of relevant sites. (I mean historical sites, like the Vera Cruz church in Segovia) :)

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  • Ian HamiltonIan Hamilton
    edited January 2005
    I haven't actually read any other books about the Templars, but I have read another book by Henry Lincoln called "The Holy Place" which I got from my local library. Unfortunately, it's now out of print.

    I have some other books by Baigent, Lincoln and Leigh called "The Messianic Legacy" which expands on the theories put forward in the first book and "The Temple And The Lodge" which deals with Freemasonry. I haven't gotten around to reading them yet though.

    I am more interested in the village of Rennes Le Chateau myself and I have visited lots of websites looking for more information. Some day I will actually visit there, if I ever get the money.

    I bought The Da Vinci Code last christmas, but I haven't gotten around to reading it yet either. That's always the way with me - I buy books regularly and I remember that I'm still working my way through another book I bought previously so the new one gets shelved. :(

    Necros.
  • +CotL-DS+CotL-DS
    edited January 2005
    Have you read Foucoults Pendulum by Umberto Eco?
  • Alessandro TommasiAlessandro Tommasi
    edited January 2005
    Yes, I've read that Eco book, but it isn't my favorite. Talking about Eco, in an article I read sometime ago he was sort of making fun of people visiting Rennes le Chateau because of all the myths, but hey -- I want to see that place too (as well as Montsegur). :)

  • Alessandro GrussuAlessandro Grussu
    edited January 2005
    On 2005-01-06 15:00, Arjun wrote:
    To rephrase my question: Is the Templar legend (or indeed the Da Vinci Code) based on any historical facts or is it just well written fiction?

    As far as I know, and judging from what Franco Cardini, one of the most prominent historians of the Middle Ages, repeatedly wrote in his articles on specialized magazines like Storia e Dossier, it's a myth that originated in the latter decades of the 18th century as a strong pre-Romantic, anti-rationalist reaction against the Enlightment.
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  • Alessandro TommasiAlessandro Tommasi
    edited January 2005
    Yes, it's basically a fancy interpretation of various "lacks" in documentation, and sometimes forced interpretation of existing one. It is however a "standard" alternate history, it can be found in other less fictional books than Dan Brown's.

    Including, and I'm surprised noone brought that out yet, the fact that the depositaries of the Holy Grail are supposed to be the Sinclairs!
  • ArjunArjun
    edited January 2005
    On 2005-01-07 03:38, +CotL-DS wrote:
    Have you read Foucoults Pendulum by Umberto Eco?

    I read one chapter of it but soon ran out of steam. I don't have the patience of yore I'm afraid. ;)
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  • stupidgetstupidget
    edited January 2005
    I suggest you ALL go out an get this months issue of Fortean Times (named after Charles Fort).....this month there is a good breakdown of the Da Vinci Code, Knights Templar and a study of existing Templar groups!!!!!

    We need more Forteans in the world!!!! Open your minds.....

    GO AND GET IT NOW!!!!!!

    http://www.forteantimes.com


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  • CKayCKay
    edited January 2005
    ? What`s this about a/the Da Vinci Code? Is it some fictional book/theory...haven`t heard about that...

    Very interested in the Templars/apparent Bible Code/Nostradamus Codes (?) etc etc

    :)

    (My God, a Spectrum forum.. tut tut.. next we`ll be discussing Sychroncity, Quantum Mechanics, ghjghjghj ghjeghjeghjeghj and hotdogs....)

    Whos`s starting the Dear Diedre column... I`ve got a problem see :)

  • robert@fmrobert@fm
    edited January 2005
    "#Wherever you go, I believe that the hotdogs go on..." :D
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  • Ian HamiltonIan Hamilton
    edited January 2005
    What the hell is ghjghjghj ghjeghjeghjeghj and what does it have to do with Rennes Le Chateau?

    I always thought that was a response to being nobbled in JSW's Forgotten Abbey repeatedly i.e. angrily bashing the keyboard randomly.

    Necros.
  • CKayCKay
    edited January 2005
    @ [email="robert@fm"]robert@fm[/email] Too true... along with 4 cans and some banging tunes :) even if there vegetarian hotdogs...

    @ Necros Sounds about right.... ghjghjghj ghjeghjeghjeghj has nothing to do with Rennes Le Chateau and I`ll humbly admit that other than reading some books on Templars/Turin Shroud/Masonry some years ago I have very little recollection (don`t read when wrecked...) :)


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