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tuesday july 3rd 2001
The Secrets of Arsène Lupin
"Can TRUTH not be spoken in
the same tone as a LIE?"
Maurice Leblanc.
In "LA COMTESSE DE CAGLIOSTRO",
Maurice Leblanc reports that the Gagliostros
have a small magic mirror inherited from the father, on which
is inscribed the enumeration of the four great enigmas; the one who finds
it will be the king of kings, that is, King of the World.
Here is the list:
-In robore fortuna.
-The flagstone of the kings of Bohemia.
-The fortune of the kings of France.
-The candelabra with seven branches.
1° - The fortune of the kings of France was
discovered by A. Lupin in the
novel "L’AIGUILLE CREUSE", published in 1908-1909.
In the novel, entitled "HERLOCK SHOLMES ARRIVE TROP TARD"
(Book 1, pp.259-276),
Lupin discovers the combination of the chest leading to the
hollow needle.
2° - The flagstone of the kings of Bohemia is
discovered by A. Lupin in the
novel "L’ILE AUX TRENTE CERCUEILS", published in
1919.
The secret of the enigma is the discovery of a
radioactive floor slab. The action
takes place near Rennes (Brittany), in the region of the rhédons,
referring to near Rennes in the south France.
On the island of Sarek (giving the anagram Arkes = Arques) is the
"Prieuré", separated in two by a huge cut which, in our view,
is the zero meridian
(and not an allusion to the rupture of the Elm of Gisors in
1188).
There are three large cuts, the zero meridian, the mid-Atlantic dorsal
that passes through the St Pierre and
St Paul islands (SP), and the milky way,
which cuts the heavens in two.
3° - In robore fortuna:
- The solution to this enigma (The fortune is in the Oak tree) is discovered
by Dorothée in the novel "DOROTHEE DANSEUSE DE CORDES",
published in 1923.
-The same secret is encoded in "LA DAME BLONDE " (Book
I, pp.809-827).
4° - The candelabra with seven branches:
The secret of this enigma,discovered by A. Lupin, is revealed in "LA
COMTESSE DE CAGLIOSTRO",a novel published in 1923-1924.
Maurice Leblanc arranged that the departure point of the four enigmas
was published last...
Monseigneur de Bonnechose, inheritor of the secret of Alcor (novel), is
none other than the former Bishop of
Carcassonne and patron of Mgr Billard, his successor, who nominated and
protected Bérenger Saunière, as revealed by Patrick Ferte...
Arsène Lupin, born in Blois, can only be the King of Blois, an allusion
to the Great Monarch cited in the
prophecies of Nostradamus and Saint Césaire.
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