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PostPosted: 21 Jul 2008 10:40 am 
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I would like to start a serious discussion on the affair of 1955-6 involving the 'English gentlemen' - so crucial to the bloodline theme. I'll start by saying that the true identity of Henri LOBINEAU/Comte Henri de LENONCOURT was Uncle Etienne ...... Guess who?


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I'll start by saying that the true identity of Henri LOBINEAU/Comte Henri de LENONCOURT was Uncle Etienne ...... Guess who?


As a matter of interest, do you therefore subscribe to the view (as put forward in the past by Gino Sandri, who I note you have referred to approvingly on another thread on this Forum) that "Henri Lobineau", whoever he may be, was a resident of the village of Rennes-le-Chateau in the 1950s?


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Why did they choose to use the first name Henri though, Boudet? Maybe someone was making a connection between Boudet and St. Germain des Pres. Interestingly, Poussin painted a Last Supper (Eucharist) scene for the Chapel of St. Germain. Here it is;

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If you take out a street map of Paris, and cast a glance at the area around the old Abbey of St Germain, you'll soon see where and why the pseudonym Lobineau. I can't imagine why anyone would believe "Lobineau" and Lenoncourt were one and the same person.


Sure, I'm aware of the provenance of the pseudonym, and the proximity of the Rue Lobineau to St. Sulpice church, and to the Abbey of St. Germain and the Merovingian connections of this latter building. My interest was sparked more by the contention (by Gino Sandri) that the person using this pseudonym was once an inhabitant of Rennes-le-Chateau.

In one of Sandri's typically enigmatic utterings, he claimed to know Lobineau's true identity, but was unwilling to divulge it. I believe (from recollection) he said this was in deference to the feelings of the man's surviving family. However, he then went on to claim that "Lobineau" lived in RLC in the 1950s, and was an avid collector of coins. Mention was also made of passeur activities during WWII. Given the village's tiny population, one could be forgiven for thinking that Sandri was deliberately giving out more than enough information for an avid researcher to identify the man.

I'm merely a dilettante in this affair, as you well know, so it sadly won't be me who makes this identification, but I have long wondered if Sandri was setting a trail for someone more qualified to follow. I also wondered - given the 1950s timeline - if he might have been referring to Corbu, but that's just an idle, and doubtless incorrect speculation on my part.


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Henri LOBINEAU - of course, the name was taken from rue Lobineau, named after Dom Alexis Lobineau (who was connected to POUSSIN). But why Henri de LENONCOURT? The French translation of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Songe de Poliphile) was dedicated to the real Henri, Comte de LENONCOURT. This book being the 'bible' of the Societe Angelique. (Sorry about the lack of accents - I don't know how to include them). The later user of this name, who used various other pseudonyms, knew Louis VAZART who dedicated a book on the Merovingian genealogies to him - who had died in 1978, and on the last page was a photo of Thomas PLANTARD de SAINT-CLAIR, as a child taken on Blanchefort. We must put two and two together!

Gino SANDRI is entirely correct, for disclosing his true identity would not be good for the family - the PLANTARD family...

'De LENONCOURT' spent his time between Paris, Geneva, London and Rennes in the 50-60's. He never actually lived in the Aude, but stayed there often - innocently collecting coins, medals, etc. and sending them off to his friend Herbert REGIS (rue Foch). He was also a friend of the 'Marquis de B', Leo SCHIDLOF, Roland MALRAUX, and knew Abbe Pierre PLANTARD and Earl SELBORNE well. In fact he was working in London in 1955/6.

In the light of all these clues, what can my readers work out from this?

I'll have more to say when I'm back in France and not tied to 1 hour on a library computer!


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In the light of all these clues, what can my readers work out from this?


Presumably that you are making some sort of reference to the Freeman notarised "Demand for the Recognition of Merovingian Rights", supposedly made in the mid-1950s by Sir Alexander Aikman, Sir John Montague Brocklebank and Major Hugh Murchison Clowes, plus nineteen un-named others (3 + 19 = 22, BTW, mildly interesting?), as related in The Messianic Legacy. Or not. I find your multiple delphic postings more than a little bewildering.

I will, however, "reader" to "author", as it were, pose a few questions of my own, that you may care to elucidate upon, pertaining as they do to various matters that you have raised here, and also to "English connections". I don't necessarily expect answers, which of course you are not obliged to provide in any event, but I shall ask them anyway, just for the fun of it.

1. You referred earlier to a photograph of a young Thomas Plantard on Blanchefort. Do you hold to the belief that this Plantard was inducted into the PdS in 1989 at the Convent of Avignon? If so, what is his current role in the order?

2. Speaking of Plantard family connections to the area around Rennes-les-Bains, is it correct, as others have contended, that Pierre Plantard owned a burial plot in the cemetry here, previously marked by a wooden cross by the church wall, and subsequently washed away in the recent floods, and that this cross formed part of an alignment (referenced in the "Boudet Tombs" thread) with the Boudet family tomb, a sphere on the church roof, a menhir beyond that, and Rennes-le-Chateau church?

3. On a similar theme, is it the case that the Plantard family continues to own plots of land in the area, and specifically in the vicinity of Roco Negre, which Plantard contended was the entrance to a subterranean temple?

4. If there is purported to be a temple beneath the black rock, is this the same as the Temple of Isis referenced by de Cherisy?

5. Was there truly a schism in the 1950s between the French and the Anglo-American components of the PdS, and if so, why?

6. How much credence do you give to the involvement of the League of Antiquarian Booksellers in this affair, and in particular to the letter bearing their name that was sent to M. Fatin, the owner of Rennes-le-Chateau castle, in the 1960s (sorry, the date escapes me, and I don't have this material to hand)?

I could go on and on, but I won't, as I'm sure these are bound to be rhetorical questions, but finally, one more.

7. Speaking of "English connections" - what connection, if any, does Nicolas Haywood have to the PdS?


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1. Thomas joined the Prieure in 1989, but never became Grand Master, nor did he write Le Cercle which was attributed to him in that year.

2. The burial plot by the tilleul was never actually owned by Pierre but it was in his interest to place a marker bearing his name there - until the inundation swept it away into the river along with the tree. The alignment you speak of was based on geometry created by J-P DELOUX and Jacques BRETIGNY, Prieure members, for the 'cause'. It is significant - up to a point.

3. When Pierre died, Thomas inherited the eight plots of land at Roc Negre, although the mairie still had them recorded in his father's name long after. There were two main reasons for buying the plots - one to obtain voting rights within the parish and the other to regain his inheritance symbolically.

4. The Temple I have not seen. I cannot say. Yes, it can be termed a Temple of Isis. AB URBE CONDITUM ...1681

5. The schism of 1956 is one of my main interests and dates back to Pierre VI PLANTARD's meeting with Abbe Pierre PLANTARD before the war. The Abbe's unreasonable demands sowed the seeds of the schism. In fact, it began as a family feud between two branches, one branch had English connections - which led after the war to the rise of the Anglo-American faction.

6. The ILAB-FATIN affair is linked to the events of 1955-6 and was an MI6 operation - entirely British. The background of the true ILAB is worth researching. The intoxication operation was complex and actually DOES involve GENUINE parchments dating back to 1244. It was highly political and sensitive and is still an official secret in Britain and France. A member of my family who died in 1978 was involved in this affair. FRAZER was the link between MOUNTBATTEN and the French agent who obtained the parchments from Nevers in 1950. Earl SELBORNE was a key player for he had run SOE during the war and already knew certain people. The CLOWES family knew the Paris firm LETOUZEY et ANE, and yes, Abbe SAUNIERE did stay at ANE's where he met HOFFET etc.

7. I cannot answer this. I believe he is genuine but have never met him.

Will that do? As I'm in a library I don't have access to any archives and short on time.


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Will that do? As I'm in a library I don't have access to any archives and short on time.


It will, yes. I must admit, when I posed those questions I wasn't really expecting an answer, so thank you for taking the time to write one. Of course, you yourself have posed a whole load of other questions in doing so, but that's in the nature of these things. And you clearly like dropping elliptical hints in your answers, but that's fine too. It all goes with the territory.

I'll look into the detail of what you've written. Thanks again.


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This thread seems to have dried up. I thought it might, yet I find the English affair the most absorbing aspect of 20th century British history. It's surprising that so many English people seem to avoid this subject. It is still an official secret and is likely to remain so for many years to come.

Etienne PLANTARD working for the British royal family? Surely not!


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No, I don't read the papers; I'm too busy doing this! (I don't believe half I read anyway).

It may be still a state secret but it is long past its sell by date! It could harm nobody if released - except the integrity of a certain family maybe, or of government policy or agencies at that time. If you dig deep and long enough in materials already in the public domain, it's surprising the secrets that can be found out. After all this is what investigative journalism is all about - living on the edge to expose hypocrisy - and there's not enough of it! Freedom of censorship on the internet is surely worth fighting for.


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This thread seems to have dried up. I thought it might, yet I find the English affair the most absorbing aspect of 20th century British history. It's surprising that so many English people seem to avoid this subject. It is still an official secret and is likely to remain so for many years to come.

Etienne PLANTARD working for the British royal family? Surely not!


Has anyone told Mohammed al Fayed ? :wink:


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I would like to start a serious discussion on the affair of 1955-6 involving the 'English gentlemen' - so crucial to the bloodline theme. I'll start by saying that the true identity of Henri LOBINEAU/Comte Henri de LENONCOURT was Uncle Etienne ...... Guess who?



Yes why is this never discussed? We could start again without the spoilers this time.

Here's a good one for those with half an interest.

Queen Victoria not only ordered her own personal copy of Boudet's La Vraie Langue Celtique et le Cromlech de Rennes les Bains but also sent a congratulations letter to Boudet.

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GAYLORD FREEMAN AS GRAND MASTER

From 1918 to 1963, Jean Cocteau was Grand Master of the Prieure de Sion. Following the unification of the various powers into a secret NWO government in 1954, the Prieure de Sion had a major policy dispute. In 1963 with Cocteau’s death, Gaylord Freeman, helped by Antonio Merzagora and Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair, governed the Prieure de Sion. In 1981, Pierre Plantard took over as Grand Master. In 1952, long before becoming Grand Master, Plantard de Saint-Clair transferred 100 million francs worth of gold ingots to Switzerland to the Union des Banques Suisses. When this was publicly revealed, he said that it was a legitimate move made for the French government.

In 1955, several men associated with the Prieure de Sion obtained some old parchments two of which gave the Merovingian genealogies, and they used the British Notary of Royal Appointment Patrick Francis Jourdan Freeman (that’s one name) in relation to a request to the French government to take the old documents to London, England where they were kept at 39 Great Russell St.

Later P.F.J. Freeman was used again the next year to request that the documents be allowed to stay in England to be held in a safe deposit box at Lloyd’s Bank of Europe in London. One of the men involved went by the name Captain Ronald Stansmore Nutting of London (born in Dublin, IR) who is reported by reliable sources to have been in British Intelligence MI5, and had sat on the board of directors of at least 14 companies, including Arthur Guinness and Guardian Assurance. He was chairman of the board of the British and Irish Steam Packet Company. He was also governor of the Bank of Ireland.

One of Guardian Assurance’s departmental chairmen was also an MI5 operative besides Capt. Nutting. Another P.d.S. member who was with Nutting was Viscount Frederick Leathers, who was British Minister of War Transport during W.W. II. Viscount Leathers had a business associate and long-time friend Sir William Stephenson, who was the wartime chief for MI6’s American branch office called BSC (British Security Coordination) in New York. Another friend of Leathers was Connop Guthrie also headed BSC for MI-6 in New York. Guthrie was a shipping executive.

Due to internal trouble in the Prieure de SIon that resulted from a rule that members had to place a birth certificate and signature with the Priory, an English faction created forgeries of birth certificates and signatures and in secret protest sent these as originals to France. PJ. Freeman then got involved in this act of defiance. Another division occurred between the French members and the Brit.-American members. The French wanted more of a role and some type of restoration of the monarchy in a United Europe. The Amer.-British members who far outnumbered the few French wanted to skip the monarchy idea.

The Vatican and the Prieure de Sion (P.d.S. - my personal abbreviation) work together. Apparently, the Vatican is given some type of minor kickback for their cooperation. John Drick, A. Robert Abboud, and Gaylord Freeman were three members of the Prieure de Sion that were associated with the First National Bank of Chicago. John Drick had started as an assistant cashier in 1944 and became a vice-president three years later. In 1969 Drick became both the president and one of the directors of the bank. He also was on the board of a number of other companies including, Stephan Chemical, MCA incorporated, Oak Industries, and Central Illinois Public Service. The Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance (the Guardian Assurance) in London where P.J. Freeman worked had shared a building with the First National Bank of Chicago which had Gaylord Freeman as chairman of the board of directors. In other words, the two businesses and the two Freemans all connected its seems to the Prieure de Sion, and then by other inferences all connected back to the hierarchy. Gaylord Freeman’s signature appeared on a Prieure de Sion document of Dec. 16, 1983. Gaylord Freeman never publicly admitted that he even knew anything about the P.d.S.

GRAND MASTER GAYLORD FREEMAN and ROGER FREEMAN instructed the U.S. government

On the next page is a photocopy of the article that the New York Times ran when Gaylord (Gale) Freeman died. It has often been said if you want to know who really runs things, look at a man’s advisors. Now check this out, Gaylord Freeman never ran for any major political office--and the voting process is supposedly to get men who know what they are doing into office, and yet if you read the N.Y. Times biography you will read "Mr. Freeman...was frequently called on by Washington for advice and assistance.’ Yes, Presidents and Congressman called Gaylord Freeman for advice (instructions might be a better term), and yet most of us haven’t even heard of the man! Again for those who think that only the Rockefellers and Rothschild's are powerful families, let me ask, why weren’t they calling Rockefeller? Not only did the Presidents turn to Gaylord Freeman for advice (orders), they also turned to another member of the family, Roger A. Freeman.

Roger A. Freeman was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute. (I suspect Roger was Jewish but the newspaper doesn’t say any religion.) The New York Times biographical news article that came out when Roger died is also put on the next page. Note that in the headline they emphasize that Roger Freeman played the role as advisor to 2 presidents. And yet I doubt that hardly any American has heard of him. One prominent Freeman, James D. Freeman has played a leadership role in Unity School.

James Freeman has written at least six important books for Unity which they have published. Two of his works are Unity School and The Story of Unity. Had the article on spiritual warfare covered ritual sites in Kansas-Missouri I would have mentioned about the Unity School. Near (adjoining) the Unity School, in between Kansas City, Ks. and Kansas City, Mo. is a strip of wooded land. Little Ricky Rd. goes through this area, and the forest along Little Ricky Rd. has been used for Satanic rituals by a coven that was made up of adults not teenagers-Interestingly, a man who was part of the Unity School hierarchy, and came to Christ told me that the school secretly conducted Luciferian initiations and that Robert Schuler, 33° Mason, and leading Protestant clergyman knew all about Luciferian initiations being conducted there, yet Schuler went ahead and taught his principles of church growth to Unity School.

They call the school Unity School of Christianity but a more accurate name would be Unity School of Witchcraft. Many witches have in fact been associated with the Unity Church and are closely working with it to secretly destroy Christianity. I know from inside information that the hierarchy is sending orders to the school, so it would not surprise me if James D. Freeman was actually part of the Freeman family that is one of the top 13 Illuminati families. Some of the family are clearly Jewish, such as Ernest Robert Freeman, who lives in Maryland and is an important Jewish leader. He has been the dlr. of the Jewish Community Council in his area, and President of the Sachs/Freeman Assoc. The Sachs family also ties into the conspiracy so that is interesting. And Grace Freeman, who is Jewish, wrote Inside the Synagogue. Some of the Freemans are leaders in Christendom too.

Lee Jackson Freeman is an American Baptist minister. He went to Union Theological Seminary, which is a totally ungodly place--they turn out socialists for graduates, etc. Lee Jackson Freeman was a member of the executive board of the national ministries of the American Baptist Church. He also served in the Ecumenical Ministries in his Scranton, PA area. R. Lexie Freeman is a Nashville, Tenn. Methodist pastor (Waverly Place) who is a Freemason.


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We find the Freeman family popping up as the Grand Master of the Prieure de Sion, as a co-rounder of the O.T.O., as a member of the Skull and Bones, as a powerful ADL member, as members of Satanic covens, and as authors. of occult books, as well as other suspicious things. It also should be mentioned that two of the Freemans have been very important advisors to the U.S. Presidents and many other high political leaders. The Freeman family has all the earmarks of being one of the top 13 Illuminati families as my confidential sources reveal.


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Here's a good one for those with half an interest.

Queen Victoria not only ordered her own personal copy of Boudet's La Vraie Langue Celtique et le Cromlech de Rennes les Bains but also sent a congratulations letter to Boudet.


Did she really order it, though, or was it an unsolicited gift from Boudet, by way of his friend and intermediary, Constantin Cailhol (discussed on the Abbe Delmas thread), during the Queen's stay in Biarritz in the spring of 1889? She certainly sent the note of thanks afterwards, as you say, or rather her private secretary, Sir Henry Ponsonby, did, from Biarritz, on 29th March 1889:

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Sir Henry Ponsonby presents his compliments to Monsieur Cailhol and is commanded by the Queen Victoria to request him to thank the Reverend Pere Boudet for the interesting work on Languedoc and English which he has had the kindness to present to Her Majesty.


Another copy of LVLC was given to Lord Lytton, British Ambassador to France from 1887 to 1891, whose secretary, H Austin Lee, also sent a note of thanks.

I got the above from Peter O'Reilly's article, "The Mysterious Monsieur Cailhol", printed in the Rennes Observer, April 2005.


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roscoe wrote:
Here's a good one for those with half an interest.

Queen Victoria not only ordered her own personal copy of Boudet's La Vraie Langue Celtique et le Cromlech de Rennes les Bains but also sent a congratulations letter to Boudet.


Did she really order it, though, or was it an unsolicited gift from Boudet, by way of his friend and intermediary, Constantin Cailhol (discussed on the Abbe Delmas thread), during the Queen's stay in Biarritz in the spring of 1889? She certainly sent the note of thanks afterwards, as you say, or rather her private secretary, Sir Henry Ponsonby, did, from Biarritz, on 29th March 1889:

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Sir Henry Ponsonby presents his compliments to Monsieur Cailhol and is commanded by the Queen Victoria to request him to thank the Reverend Pere Boudet for the interesting work on Languedoc and English which he has had the kindness to present to Her Majesty.


Another copy of LVLC was given to Lord Lytton, British Ambassador to France from 1887 to 1891, whose secretary, H Austin Lee, also sent a note of thanks.

I got the above from Peter O'Reilly's article, "The Mysterious Monsieur Cailhol", printed in the Rennes Observer, April 2005.


Yes Thanks Richard. Plantard also mentioned it. Just a bit of interest to the proceedings. Do you think that Cailhol is a made up name?

Anyone know the whereabouts of irmine these days? Need to discuss this Plantard/Gaylord Freeman connection. All of the people mentioned in this English Connection are real people.

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Yes Thanks Richard. Plantard also mentioned it. Just a bit of interest to the proceedings. Do you think that Cailhol is a made up name?


I think more likely a real person. This is what I wrote last May, after reading the Rennes Observer article:

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I have now read the [article] by Peter O'Reilly entitled "The Mysterious Monsieur Cailhol" that was published in the Rennes Observer in April 2005. And it transpires that this is not a translation of the similarly titled article by Jean-Alain Sipra, as we speculated that it might be, although it does make reference to it. Sipra, it seems, questions whether Cailhol was real and suggests this might have been one of Boudet's puns, whereas O'Reilly argues that he was likely a real person.

Someone has very kindly indeed furnished me with a copy of the O'Reilly article. A combination of technical ineptitude and, more importantly, due respect for the author and the copyright of his work, precludes me from reproducing it here, but I have summarised the salient points below. In essence, the author makes a persuasive case for M Constantin Cailhol of Alet-les-Bains having been a real person, and contemporary of Boudet's.

The article contains three principle arguments, each of which I've addressed below.

References in La Vraie Langue Celtique

The article cites the reference we have been discussing some way above, to the head of the Saviour taken from Cap de l'Homme and entrusted to M Cailhol for safekeeping. But it transpires that there are two other references to Cailhol in Boudet's book - one about him (described as an explorer) finding a carved stone in a cave at Bize, and another about him having in his possession a millstone fragment found in the soil by workers constructing the road from Rennes-les-Bains to Sougraines in 1884.

Fossiles de Rennes-les-Bains (Aude)

On searching the website of the Academie des Sciences, Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres de Toulouse, the author finds in the index of articles a reference to one entitled Fossiles de Rennes-les-Bains (Aude), the author of which is given as a Cailhol. There are no initials before the surname, but as O'Reilly surmises, it would surely be too much of a coincidence for this to be referring to a different person. O'Reilly speculates that Cailhol was likely a notable contributor to Boudet's research for LVLC.

Queen Victoria

A letter is reproduced in the article - it also apparently appears in L'Alphbet Solaire by Chaumeil and Riviere, and in Jarnac's Histoire du Tresor de Rennes-le-Chateau - from Sir Henry Ponsonby, private secretary to Queen Victoria, sent from Biarritz on 29th March 1889, where the Queen spent some time that year, and following receipt of LVLC. It reads:

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Sir Henry Ponsonby presents his compliments to Monsieur Cailhol and is commanded by the Queen Victoria to request him to thank the Reverend Pere Boudet for the interesting work on Languedoc and English which he has had the kindness to present to Her Majesty.


As O'Reilly goes on to argue, this letter strongly suggests that Cailhol was an intermediary for Boudet, and therefore likely a close friend and confidante.

Another letter is reproduced, including a facsimilie of the hand written version, from an H Austin Lee, secretary to Lord Lytton, British Ambassador to France (1887-91), and also referring to Boudet's book, also sent from Biarritz in March 1889, and although absent the name of the addressee, O'Reilly reasonably surmises that this letter was also written to Cailhol.

There then follows some interesting speculation about how the visit of Queen Victoria to France might have inspired Boudet and Cailhol to use the opportunity of her relative proximity to the Aude to present the book to her.

I hope Peter O'Reilly won't mind if I quote verbatim the very last part of the article, because I liked this part very much, and it sums things up rather nicely, I think.

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Precisely what the recipients made of La Vraie Langue Celtique is not recorded, it seems, but [Giles] St Aubyn [biographer of Queen Victoria] tells us that the Queen enjoyed her visit to Biarritz.

The country reminded her of the Isle of Wight - probably the only time the resemblance had ever been noted - and she claimed that nothing could exceed the extraordinary kindness and civility of "the French high and low". Wherever she went the Basques shouted "Viva la Reina", just like the denizens of East Cowes.

One cannot help wondering if the Queen's sense of welcome and belonging might also have owed something to a reading of La Vraie Langue Celtique, for this would have revealed to her the astonishing esteem in which the English language was held by Abbe Boudet - and, it seems, by his friend and intermediary Constantin Cailhol.


Thanks so much again to the person who sent me the article. Based on this, and other parts of the discussion above, I'd say that Constantin Cailhol was a real person, and a rather interesting sounding one as well.


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Anyone know the whereabouts of irmine these days? Need to discuss this Plantard/Gaylord Freeman connection. All of the people mentioned in this English Connection are real people.



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Another copy of LVLC was given to Lord Lytton, British Ambassador to France from 1887 to 1891, whose secretary, H Austin Lee, also sent a note of thanks.



Bulwer-Lytton was an Occultist. He was a member of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (SRIA).

The Nazis loved his book Zanoni and it's idea of the super race.

He was a great friend of Wilfred Scarwen Blunt IRA sympathizer and the granduncle of Poussin "expert" Anthony Blunt.

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Anyone know the whereabouts of irmine these days? Need to discuss this Plantard/Gaylord Freeman connection. All of the people mentioned in this English Connection are real people.



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Another copy of LVLC was given to Lord Lytton, British Ambassador to France from 1887 to 1891, whose secretary, H Austin Lee, also sent a note of thanks.



Bulwer-Lytton was an Occultist.

The Nazis loved his book Zanoni and it's idea of the super race.


This Bulwer-Lytton would have been the son of the Zanoni author, but still an interesting connection. These are the basic details of Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton's life, which concluded with his service as Queen Victoria's ambassador to France from 1887-91. His mother, Rosina Doyle Wheeler, sounds like an interesting person as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bul ... _of_Lytton


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Another copy of LVLC was given to Lord Lytton, British Ambassador to France from 1887 to 1891, whose secretary, H Austin Lee, also sent a note of thanks.



Bulwer-Lytton was an Occultist.

The Nazis loved his book Zanoni and it's idea of the super race.


This Bulwer-Lytton would have been the son of the Zanoni author, but still an interesting connection. These are the basic details of Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton's life, which concluded with his service as Queen Victoria's ambassador to France from 1887-91. His mother, Rosina Doyle Wheeler, sounds like an interesting person as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bul ... _of_Lytton


Initially Richard I thought this to be the case but it was the Occultist, SRIA member and writer of Zanoni who was the Ambassador to France from 1887. It is confusing.

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"M. Cailhol , avocat à Toulouse, a profité d'un séjour de quatre mois à Rennes-les-Bains pour recueillir les fossiles de cette station bien connue des géologues..../.... M. Cailhol se propose d’augmenter encore cette année sa belle collection et de faire une étude suivie de la région qu’il a si heureusement explorée"

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This Bulwer-Lytton would have been the son of the Zanoni author, but still an interesting connection. These are the basic details of Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton's life, which concluded with his service as Queen Victoria's ambassador to France from 1887-91. His mother, Rosina Doyle Wheeler, sounds like an interesting person as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bul ... _of_Lytton


Initially Richard I thought this to be the case but it was the Occultist, SRIA member and writer of Zanoni who was the Ambassador to France from 1887. It is confusing.


:? No, I think it must have been the son who was ambassador to France, with the father as the occultist. This is the Zanoni author's Wiki entry, which has him dying in 1873.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bul ... ron_Lytton

I see he was interested in Hollow Earth theory. I wonder if he'd ever heard of Bugarach. :wink:


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This Bulwer-Lytton would have been the son of the Zanoni author, but still an interesting connection. These are the basic details of Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton's life, which concluded with his service as Queen Victoria's ambassador to France from 1887-91. His mother, Rosina Doyle Wheeler, sounds like an interesting person as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bul ... _of_Lytton


Initially Richard I thought this to be the case but it was the Occultist, SRIA member and writer of Zanoni who was the AmLAMbassador to France from 1887. It is confusing.


:? No, I think it must have been the son who was ambassador to France, with the father as the occultist. This is the Zanoni author's Wiki entry, which has him dying in 1873.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bul ... ron_Lytton

I see he was interested in Hollow Earth theory. I wonder if he'd ever heard of Bugarach. :wink:


Now it is getting confusing because yes it was the son who was the Ambassador to France, however I have this from Edith Starr Miller the author of Occult Theocrasy:

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The Order Fratis Lucis was founded in 1882 by the English Jew Maurice Vidal Portman an orientalist and politician who in 1876 was in close cotact with Lord Lytton, then Viceroy of India the author of the well known book Zanoni.


It was the son who was Viceroy of India in 1876. Later to become Ambassador to France in 1887.

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Now it is getting confusing because yes it was the son who was the Ambassador to France, however I have this from Edith Starr Miller the author of Occult Theocrasy:

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GRAND LAMIASTIC ORDER OF LIGHT
Fratis Lucis

The Order Fratis Lucis was founded in 1882 by the English Jew Maurice Vidal Portman an orientalist and politician who in 1876 was in close cotact with Lord Lytton, then Viceroy of India the author of the well known book Zanoni.


It was the son who was Viceroy of India in 1876. Later to become Ambassador to France in 1887.


It is confusing. I can only think in that case that Edith Starr Miller must have got the two of them muddled up, or else she meant to write: "the son of the author of the well known book Zanoni". The son who was Viceroy of India, and who became Ambassador to France (and who got a state funeral in Paris, no less) wasn't born until 1831, and Zanoni was written in 1842, so it must have been the father who wrote it. But the other details in the quote above might point to an occult interest on the part of the son as well, perhaps. Obviously an interesting family, though. I see the father coined the phrase "It was a dark and stormy night," at the beginning of one of his novels.


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