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The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown - Edition Lattès
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Edition Jean-Claude Lattes
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 In this beginning of month of February 2004 the world of the popular novel is upset by an announcement made with lots of advertisement. The novel appeared in the Anglo-Saxon countries in 2003 arrives! It is about the French version of the" Da Vinci Code ".
The set of the big medias mentions it, some develop some categories on this work. Even before its exit in bookstore one learns that the rights have been bought by the movies, a movie is foreseen little from here.
But of what this book does speak? In what concerns us us must specify that he/it makes not at all directly reference in Rennes-Le-Château or the less steps.
However the winks of .il are inescapable. Author Dan Brown is, undoubtedly, an emulator of Henry Lincoln and his co-authors of" The Holly Blood and Holly Grail".
A fast summary :
An academic American famous, named Robert Langdon, be in spite of him driven in a mad ésotérico-police adventure. The curator of the Louvre, Jacques Saunière, is recovered death in the big gallery of the Louvre.
A French inspector celebrates for his methods, Bézu Fache, is charged of the investigation. Quickly he suspects Robert Langdon. .
The body of Jacques Saunière is recovered quickly in a strange position recognized by Robert Langdon that has been invited to surrender at the scene by police's inspector. There is not any doubt! The curator, extended on soil, is in the position of the man of Vitruve, .uvre of Leonardo of Vinci..
Langdon doesn't smell like the trap of Bézu Fache to close again themselves on him. Only the intervention of Sophie Neveu, young inspector of the French scientific police, opens his eyes. But what is not the surprise of Robert Langdon when he learns that Sophie Neveu is merely the granddaughter of Jacques Saunière.
From there all links together. Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu run away. Bézu Fache tracks them without relaxation. The two young people discover that Jacques Saunière, besides the fact that he is the curator of the Louvre, is the last Great Master. of a secret order: The Priory of Sion. |
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Their adventures drag us in France, in England and in Scotland where the mythical chapel of Roslyn plays an important role. He will cross goods strange characters: Of the collectors, of the members of the Opus Dei
" Da Vinci Code" is a work that throws back, of a romanticized way, what had sowed, him there some decades the authors of " the Holy Blood and Holy Grail ". The notion of the Mérovingienne lineage is landed there quickly, the name of Pierre Plantard is mentioned there briefly. On the other hand, the theory of the survival of the progeny of Jesus and Marie-Madeleine is the center of the intrigue |
One us there present a Priory of Sion very different from the one that Pierre Plantard presented in its time but a lot more close to the one that its present secretary, Gino Sandri, presented us during the interview appeared in this site. We recover in the Priory of Son of" Da Vinci Code" the cult plurimillénaire of Isis..
" Da Vinci Code" is a work that loosens and that wishes to transmit a particular theory on the survival of a Christique progeny.
One finds a" mean" Opus Dei and a "kind" Priory of Sion there. This book must be taken to the second degree and especially not to the letter. It has for objective to make pass a "message" in the general public. By definition" the Sacred Enigma" went to an aware public, there, the aim is completely different: it aims the mass. If the Movies achieve a movie of this history us think that it" will make cause in the thatched cottages ".
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Let's keep several points :
The marketing of this work has been organized to touch the general public. The stores of big diffusions had created" a wall of book" in number of their points of sales. The big medias seized the communication around this book. Then, an idyllic presentation of the Priory of Sion and an attack in rule of the Opus Dei * A well organized marketing! In what real goal and for whom? Surely not solely for the author !
To finish, we will say that" Da Vinci Code" is not an indispensable work to the enthusiasts of Rennes-Le-Château, but that it must go in the works of the construction of the modern myth.
Then, and without revealing anything of the end of the book, it is necessary to hope that the security of the museum of the Louvre gets ready to the arrival of a number important of dreamers that will want to see…
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* We don't sustain, nor let's not approve, the ways to make and the machinations of the Opus Déi."
To read absolutely : The chapter dedicated to the Priory of Sion
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