The first results of his research were a series of three television episodes for the BBC’s Chronicle series, including “The Priest, The Painter and the Devil” (1974) which told the story of Berenger Saunière, a village priest who allegedly found treasure, and Nicolas Poussin, the renaissance artist. When, during his investigations, Lincoln asked De Sède why he had published certain parchments in his book but not decoded them, the French author responded cryptically “because we thought it might interest someone like you to find it for yourself”. In L’Or de Rennes (The Gold of Rennes), De Sède hinted at a treasure and a secret society, the Priory of Sion, which preserved a lineage of royal blood from the Merovingians onwards to the present day. It was in 1969, whilst on holiday in France with his family, that Lincoln chanced upon a book by the journalist and one-time surrealist poet Gerard de Sède. Harold Bloom: Literary critic and bestselling author who challenged the orthodox.
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