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The parchment
"Sot-Pêcheur"
A survey of Patrick Mensior |
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 This document has been communicated for the first time to the public in 1967 by Gérard of Sède in his work "L'Or de Rennes ou la vie insolite de Bérenger Saunière, curé de Rennes-le-Chateau." According to the most widespread version, his discovery would go back up to 1963 where it was put on the day at the time of excavations made in the altar of the small chapel deprived of Bérenger adjoining Saunière in the Béthanie villa. This document was archived then in a folder regrouping several other pieces inherited of the priest. The enigmatic text was written on schoolchild's checkered paper. Among a myriad of works treating the history of Rennes-Le-Chateau and its vicar, rare authors evoke this document: Jean-Pierre Monteils "TLe dossier de Rennes-le-Chateau", Tatiana Kletzky-Pradère "Rennes-Le-Chateau guides the visitor, Roger Boonaert "The cryptogram of Saunière", (Treasures of history, Prospecting n° 31) Alain Féral "Rennes-le-Chateau clef du royaume des morts", and even some others. 
The cryptogram of "L'Or de Rennes"
In the same way, "the gold of Rennes" is also published at another publisher under the title "The treasure curses Rennes-Le-Chateau." In this new release, the cryptogram dons another pace.
Ten years later, in 1977, Gérard de Sède takes the plot of his two former titles in part and, to take into account new elements, recompose a third work title "Signé Rose+Croix." Once again, the presented document appears under a different shape.
The cryptogram of "Signé Rose+Croix"
The three publications of De Sède, practically identical, deliver each a version different of the cryptogram. To the page 56 of "L'Or de Rennes", the document is presented in its whole. In "Signé Rose+Croix", (page 59) the disposition of the letters is not anymore in conformity with the one of "L'Or de Rennes." These seem to be delivered in a disorganized way. Some present spaces in the first version disappeared. The interval between the word "TIME" of the fifth line and the cross (first version) disappeared in the second where "TIME" finishes the fourth line. The point placed on the left in the first work in the corner in top designating the departure of reading of the text is, in "Signé Rose+Croix", placed at the end of the first line.
In "Le Trésor maudit de Rennes-Le-Chateau" the presentation of the cryptogram is compliant, by the disposition of the letters, to the one of "L'Or de Rennes" but the whole is divided horizontally in two equal parts, each of them occupying the bottom of the pages 54 and 55 of the book. It is necessary therefore, for a precise survey of the document, to join the previously separated parts of it. it occurs then a sensitive difference of the proportions with the cryptogram of "L'Or de Rennes."
The version reconstituted of the cryptogram of the"Trésor maudit de Rennes-le-Chateau"
In these conditions, It is very difficult for the researcher to delimit a setting of serious work if this one is constantly presented in a different way. One can wonder besides about the reasons of such an inaccuracy in the reproduction of the document concerned. Is it a will of the author or the fact of the different publishers ?
It is certain that the interest essentially resides in the research of its source. In his three works, Gérard De Sède illustrates the document by a legend specifying that he was found among the priest's personal papers. In page 69 of "Le dossier secret de Rennes-le-Chateau", Jean-Pierre Monteils speaks thus of it: ".We had been intrigued strongly by a text appearing in the papers of Saunière and had been reproduced in "L'Or def Rennes" ". Some supplementary details appear under the feather of Richard Khaitzine that writes in "Les faiseurs d'or de Rennes-le-Chateau" It was probably an enigmatic text discovered in the papers of Bérenger Saunière per Noël Corbu and presented to the press in 1963, to the Béthanie villa that intrigued Féral..
Does the presence of this curious composition in the personal papers of the Rennes-Le-Chateau vicar imply t-her that Bérenger Saunière was the inventor of it? To answer this question definitely, it would agree to consult the original document. However Gérard De Sède doesn't specify that detains it.
In spite of included elements in the cryptogram that cannot be assimilated to proofs, like the B letters and corresponding S to the initials of Bérenger Saunière, themselves consistent of the word "CURE" interrupted of one "H" that would designate his priest's function, several indications would have the tendency to authenticate this document.
- Its discovery is previous to the first writings and intervenes therefore before the mediatization of history that we know him today..
- It was discovered in a cache practiced in the altar deprived of the priest, accessible cache, by definition, exclusively to the owners of the places.
- Equally to the stele of the marchioness of Blanchefort, this document is not initialed of the initial P and S.
- Finally, since 1963, no author seems to have put in doubt De Sède on the reality of this documentt.
Since its revelation to the general public, this element of the "puzzle of Rennes-Le-Chateau" generated several studies of which some bring some results. Unfortunately, to my sense, the undertaken works were on a basis not respecting all information given by this document. Indeed, every survey used a land of investigating requiring the setting in grid of the text of this cryptogram. According to the chosen methods, disappear the crosses, the punctuation, some intervals. Sometimes all or gone of the three to keep the letters only. Yet, it is sufficient to use a simple rule stepped up to note that the positioning of the letters makes impossible a setting in any grid of the text, and it for the three presented versions! Yet the original document conceived on the paper grided of schoolchild returned of as much easier such an arrangement if this one had been wished !
But then, an explanation plausible of this cryptogram that takes account of all elements that it includes does exist ? Does t-he present some analogies with the stele of the Lady of Blanchef0ort ? Do give him of the precise messages? The answer to all these questionings is yes.i.
Patrick Mensior
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