"selon Chaumeil, Saunière à un fructueux négoce d'huile de Colza"according to Chaumeil, Saunière was a "profitable Colza oil trader".
Oh really....
Il faut entre 3 et 4 kilos de graines pour faire un litre d'huile de colza ...et un Pressoir.
so.... (according to rapeseed monthly) to make a litre of rapeseed oil you need 3 to 4 kilos of seed...and a press to extract the oil.
....there's something else going on here dontcha think
There is a Pressoir at Rennes le Château at the original old church i believe......but in a bizarre Lovuian kind of way i find myself back at... Gethsémani (Gat-Shémanîm) = pressoir à huile ......“Gethsemane” which means “oil press”.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressoir_mystique....and let's not forget Louis de Coma and his l’Oeuvre de Gethsemane ....Louis de Coma, the man who set the standard for priests behaving strangely.
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After finishing his studies de Coma became a religious teacher until his father died in 1855. He returned home to the family domain of Carol, close to Baulou in the French Ariège region.
He used the money he inherited to found ‘l’Oeuvre de Gethsemane (the works of Gethsemane), a foundation that received money for saying masses for the dead. His obsession with death also made him of the leader of the ‘Association de Bonne Mort’ (Association of the Good Death ). He became an expert in saying masses for the dead. He became even wealthier earning a franc for mentioning the name of the deceased during mass and 100 francs for a tailor-made mass with every possible decorum. He travelled the entire country doing so and made quite a name for himself.
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Louis va alors rejoindre le vaste domaine familial, à Baulou dans l’Ariège. Il dirige l’Association « La Bonne Mort », affiliée à la Compagnie de Jésus et dont l’objectif est d’aider les croyants à préparer leur mort. Association qui consiste à recevoir des dons, organiser des retraites payantes, des confessions... Il crée l’œuvre de Gethsemani dont le but est de recevoir des dons pour des messes en faveur des mourants (Une messe individuelle 100f, 1 messe commune 1 f). Déjà, nous constatons des similitudes avec Saunière.
so if we are going to be wandering down blind-alleys (and admit it, we do it a lot), i'd at least like to make the detour interesting
