Author, researcher, speaker. My first book, The Map and the Manuscript: Journeys in the Mysteries of the Two Rennes, was published by Ignotum Press in 2022. I blog here on topics connected with the book, including landscape alignments, ancient sites, France, the Pyrenees, Jean Richer, Rennes-les-Bains, alchemy, geometry, Jung, Gérard de Nerval, Le Serpent Rouge, the Affair of Rennes, and more.
New review of The Map and the Manuscript calls it "the first sensible book to be published on the Rennes-le-Château mysteries"
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Beyond the Map and the Manuscript
Author, researcher, speaker. My first book, The Map and the Manuscript: Journeys in the Mysteries of the Two Rennes, was published by Ignotum Press in 2022. I blog here on topics connected with the book, including landscape alignments, ancient sites, France, the Pyrenees, Jean Richer, Rennes-les-Bains, alchemy, geometry, Jung, Gérard de Nerval, Le Serpent Rouge, the Affair of Rennes, and more.
"BELISANE Editions has the advantage of presenting here a faithful copy of an original edition that we hold in our collections and which we allow to be consulted at leisure in our offices in Rennes-les-Bains or Rennes-le-Château. The layout and typography of the book, as well as the colors and size of the map, are finally preserved." - Philippe Schrauben, Introduction in the 1984 Bélisane edition of Boudet's La Vraie Langue Celtique. In my book, The Map and the Manuscript (2022), I revealed...
I'm pleased to announce that the video of my recent presentation, entitled Le Serpent Rouge and the Zodiac of Rennes-les-Bains, is now available for viewing on my Youtube channel. This was a two-hour talk delivered to a small group on the evening of 14 November 2025, at La Confluence Events Centre in Couiza, Aude, France. It was a special night for me, in more ways than one, an opportunity to present the results of my work to an appreciative audience in a warm and welcoming environment. So...
Original 1886 version of Boudet's map comes to light confirming the presence of the inch-grid A photograph of the map included in the original 1886 edition of Henri Boudet's La Vraie Langue Celtique has been located online, as reported in a recent blog post at the Rhedesium website. No link to the original page is provided, but it is said to appear on a Cambridge University Library catalogue. It is clearly genuine. Importantly, it includes a reference measure, which now makes it possible to...