2 et 3
décember 2003 Jean-Luc
Chaumeil, prolific author on the mystery of Rennes-le-Château, has
written 5 special numbers in the review "Charivari", books: "Le
Triangle d'Or",
"Le Trésor des Templiers", etc.
Following the disappearance of Pierre Plantard (February
2000) and the interview of Gino Sandri, Jean-Luc Chaumeil made a point
of giving his point of view on the Priory of Sion and his tumultuous
relations with these 2 protagonists! The answers of Jean-Luc Chaumeil exceeded the
framework of the first interview since he spoke to us about his childhood and the genesis of the business of RLC. They will make it possible for the
readers to better determine his personality. Considering the size of the subject,
the interview will be published in three numbers!
Gazette of Rennes-le-Chateau
: Jean-Luc Chaumeil,
introduce yourself to the readers of the Gazette.
Jean-Luc Chaumeil : I was born on October twentieth, 1944 in Lille, not
farfrom Dunkirk, in that fine war which was not yet finished, in the midst
of the English bombs which sprinkled the area and which frightened my mother.
Ninety years earlier, as a preliminary, the French poet, Arthur Rimbaud, the
god of my childhood, prepared to create a new style; later, he would write on
the walls of Charleville: "Merdre With God"; for, at the end of
his life, after having discovered the queen of Ethiopia, he would return to the generous
flash of eternity. He had found the direction and the music of the fabulous
work which he unrolled with profusion at the time of his famous excursions.
The philosopher Nietzsche, badly understood, would add to the prophecies
of Rimbaud the concept of "the death of God". The twentieth
century was to confirm these two prophecies by a third: "the dead man" of the
surroundings of Rennes-le-Chateau. We, in less than one century, had all become orphans,
true children of the widow or the queen of the South. And it was proposed to
the survivors as well as to the newcomers expressly to take account of these
three concepts. It is, within this framework, new delta of a "Terra
incognita", that several new religions were established concerning the "Mythology of Rennes-le-Chateau".
First
book of Jean-Luc Chaumeil devoted to the business
of Rennes-le-Château, published at Alain Lefeuvre
in 1979
Gazette : What do you remember of your childhood and of
your adolescence with Taillefer?
Jean-Luc Chaumeil : I was hardly five years old when I underwent my first
initiation with the elementals: one very stormy afternoon it started to
rain and hail in turn; I took refuge under a tree. My mother, on the second floorabove ground level, supervised my comings and goings, looking at the
sky. A flash, of a blinding light, opened the doors of the clouds and I
received the lightning like a gift come from the skies! Already someone wanted to
assassinate me! Terrorized by the incident, I took refuge under the roof of a shed
as if I was stupefied. My mother spent three seconds to descend the two
flights of stairs and proceeded to take me in her arms and to check that I was not
a heap of ashes! After that, I looked at the universe from another angle:
it wasnecessary to act quickly because the thread of life was thin, fragile,
dubious...
I started to read all the prohibited books of the library of my father
where I was initiated into the underwater war, inter alia, in twenty-four
volumes...
Then came adolescence with an extraordinary dialogue with the invisible
one of the Castle of Taillefer and in the village of my origins: Carennac.
An old wizard, teacher of his state, having lived in Africa, practised the art
of the magic of the bees. Worshipful Grand Master of an obedience, he
explained to me the subtle relation between the various worlds by the secret teaching
of the analogical methods. Consequently I had, for each situation or event,
a multiple approach, sometimes contradictory but always enriching.
A journalist at eighteen years of age, I worked for several reviews,
daily newspapers and weekly magazines. My first play " Beryl, or
Transparency" was never performed, except in my life, since my second daughter bears this
name. Some poems of this time were published in the book
"Apocalypse", in 1981, where I envisaged, inter alia, the attack of September 11. Obviously, nobody
has noticed it previously...
The village of
Sion-les-Mines
Gazette : When and how did you discover the enigma of
RLC, as a "reporter of the invisible"?
Jean-Luc Chaumeil : A painter at times, a poet at others, a journalist to earn my living, I very early became acquainted with Daniel Réju, who
asked me for articles for the review "The Age of Aquarius". I also worked
for "Europe Journal", the first European weekly magazine, and I made a press
review for the executives of a motorway company. A little before my divorce after I was
married too young, a young writer, Claude Pimont, author of "God
Does Not Exist, I Met Him", in company of a friend of Réju, Mr Renard, told me the
history of a priest who, supposedly, had discovered "billions", in the
south of France! The book was by Gerard de Sède, author of a book which I had read,
"the Templars are Among Us" that a police inspector had lent to my
father...
Knowing the history of Gisors, having already approached it, I was wary
of "The Gold of Rennes" and I acknowledge that I was right a priori; Thus I
preferred Arsène Lupin and the history of Etretat, especially after
having read Valère Catogan and having admired the painting of Claude Monet,
"L'aiguille Creuse".
Let us not forget that I had made excavations with Taillefer after the reading of "Templars are Among Us". In regards to treasure, I
had discovered a quite real vipers' nest and more clearly a world where the universe was
more interesting waiting to be discovered... I understood very early that
history was always the same and that the solution was not to discover such or such a
treasure but to see the man and the invisible one, the other of Rimbaud
or the superman of Nietzsche, or the hidden entity behind the play of
ourselves, but which acts with conscience to render comprehensible to us, that through the
play of discovery, there is another quite tangible reality which concerns us personally and, sometimes, history, which is, to be strictly accurate, marvellous... Here is thus my definition of reporter of the invisible and the process
of a collective initiation, provided that the crystallization of gold is, in
the first place, dissipated...
In 1971, I read the book "The Lost Gold" and my editor in
chief, Claude Jacquemart, entrusted the drafting of a special number to me: number 18
concerning "The Files of the Priory of Sion". Daniel Réju gave me the
telephone number of Plantard and, in parallel, I met Gerard de Sède, in the Rue
Danrémont. At the same time, Mathieu Paoli, a friend of the Rumanian writer Doru
Theodoriciu, began a film for the T.S.R on Arginy and Rennes-le-Chateau.
In the whole first part of the year 1972, I left on mission to Rennes with my
photographer Bernard Roy.
Continuation
of the article (Buthion, Plantard, de Sède, Paoli)
Jean-Luc
Chaumeil and Pierre Plantard
Warning of the editors
: the remarks of Jean-Luc
Chaumeil have been reproduced as
such at his request! The Gazette's editors do not account for hints at some
persons
and will grant them a right of response, or their family, if such is requested!
The
questions and comments are the editors'. Acknowledgements
:
the editors thank Jean-Luc Chaumeil for the permission to publish
the photoes. They also thank the webmasters who sent the illustrations of
three numbers of the article!
