The Secret of the Knights Templar

The Modern Merovingian Connection

Heroes of the Resistance

On February 13, 1973 the Midi Libre "suggested that the Merovingian descendants included 'a true pretender to the throne of France', whom it identified as M. Alain Poher....During the Second World War he won the Resistance Medal and the Croix de Guierre. Following the resignation of de Gaulle, he was provisional President of France from April 28th to June 19th, 1969. He occupied the same position on the death of Georges Pompidou, from April 2nd to May 27th, 1974. In 1973...M. Poher was President of the French Senate." - Baigent and Leigh, Holy Blood and Holy Grail

"During the Second World War, while Poher was doing something heroic in the Resistance to win the Resistance Medal and the Croix de Guerre, and while Plantard [future Nautonnier of the Priory of Sion] defied the Nazis and suffered torture for it, the Cross of Lorraine was adopted as the symbol of the Free French forces under Charles de Gaulle. This cross, having two cross-bars instead of one, originated with the ancient French house of Anjou, where Guiot found his tale about Percival. It was later adopted by the Merovingian-descended rulers of Lorraine in the old Sicambrian heartland on the Rhine." - Michael Bradley, Holy Grail Across the Atlantic

"Invited in 1947 by the Federal Government of Switzerland, he [Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair) resided for several years there, near Lake Leman, where numerous charges de missions and delegates from the entire world are gathered." - Anne Lea Hisler (Plantard's wife)

"The Marshall Plan, the financial and political plan for the reconstruction of Europe, was thrashed out at Lake Leman in Switzerland. The American President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, had approved this plan, and two of his closest friends and advisors had backgrounds and interests as disreputable as Pierre Plantard's. One such advisor, the financial wizard, Bernard Baruch, was a graduate of a French 'hermetic' school and was the financial architect of the so-called Marshall Plan. He visited Lake Leman frequently in the immediate post-war years." "Baruch had been a disciple of George Gurdjieff, a Cathar-like mystic who had founded the 'Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man' in Fontainbleu, France during the 1920's and 1930s." - Michael Bradley, Holy Grail Across the Atlantic