- Paperback: 33 pages
- Publisher: Ben Hammott (7 April 2009)
- ISBN-10: 0956236901
- ISBN-13: 978-0956236906
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 14.2 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Bérenger Saunière's 33 Rennes-le-Château Postcards
(Reproductions from original postcards)
(Reproductions from original postcards)
This collection of Bérenger Saunière's postcards has taken the author almost 6 years to complete and was only finalized with the purchase of an album that had been known about for some time. Its previous owner lives in France near to Rennes-le-Château.
The 33 postcards reproduced in this publication are the best quality examples seen so far. Blemishes, creases or other imperfections have also been removed.
Book size is A5 and like the originals the postcards are reproduced in Black & White.
The original postcards reproduced here were printed just over 100 years ago around 1907 and except for the one labelled `The Rocks and Cascades of Saoutadou' the postcards are of Saunière's Rennes-le-Château domain, the Château, and some nearby views
The postcards sold for 10ct and seemed to have been place for sale in various places in and around Rennes-le-Château, including the nearby village of Rennes-les-Bains, where Saunière seemed to have done a brisk trade in selling them to visitors come to bathe in the thermal waters located there. He comments in a letter to a friend that "All the bathers take the complete collection. The cards have so much success that I can hardly keep up supplying them."
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After reading 2 of Ben's other books, Lost Tomb of the Knights Templar: Rennes-le-Chateau Secrets and Discoveries and Beginnings: Hunt for the Treasure of Rennes le Chateau (The Tomb, the Temple, the Treasure) I decided to purchase the 33 Postcards Album containing the complete collection of postcards commissioned by the mysterious priest Berenger Sauniere. Who's sudden wealth still remains a mystery today.
It is a great collection of old postcards, depiction the priest's home, gardens and some surrounding landmarks.
If you are at all interested in the Rennes-le-Chateau mystery, you will thoroughly enjoy this atmospheric collection of postcards originally produced in 1907.
It is a great collection of old postcards, depiction the priest's home, gardens and some surrounding landmarks.
If you are at all interested in the Rennes-le-Chateau mystery, you will thoroughly enjoy this atmospheric collection of postcards originally produced in 1907.
The past really does jump out of the pages while reading this Rennes-le-Chateau postcard album.
But first we need a bit of back story so we can see the importance of the postcards.
In 1885, Berenger Sauniere became the priest of the tiny hilltop village of Rennes le Chateau in France. After a few years of poverty he is doing some essential repairs in the church, when he finds an old document hidden in his church dedicated to Mary Magdalene. It is not long after this that he becomes very rich. It is assumed that the document he found, led him to a treasure. It was with some of this treasure he built his domain that features in the postcards.
What is important for those researching the Rennes-le-Chateau story, is that these postcards, commissioned by Abbe Sauniere, show his domain exactly how it looked shortly after he finished it. In some of the postcards you can see there is some construction work not quite finished.
The postcards also featured the priest's pets, Marie Denarnaud, his faithful housekeeper, and lots more.
I really like this postcard album as it certainly brought the past alive to me.
I will be visiting Rennes-le-Chateau in 2011 and I will take this album with me so I can note the changes.
It is rumored that the priest left clues to his remaining treasure in his church and domain, maybe I will see something that leads me to it. Now that would make 2011 a good year!
Other related publications I can recommend are Illustrated Guide to Rennes-le-Chateau No. 1: Stations of the Cross, Bas-relief and Statues and Illustrated Guide to Rennes-le-Chateau: No.2: Sauniere's Domain -The Tourist Trail - Chateau's - Places of Interest and what has become some people's bible for researching the Rennes le Chateau Mystery, Ben Hammott's book Lost Tomb of the Knights Templar: Rennes-le-Chateau Secrets and Discoveries
But first we need a bit of back story so we can see the importance of the postcards.
In 1885, Berenger Sauniere became the priest of the tiny hilltop village of Rennes le Chateau in France. After a few years of poverty he is doing some essential repairs in the church, when he finds an old document hidden in his church dedicated to Mary Magdalene. It is not long after this that he becomes very rich. It is assumed that the document he found, led him to a treasure. It was with some of this treasure he built his domain that features in the postcards.
What is important for those researching the Rennes-le-Chateau story, is that these postcards, commissioned by Abbe Sauniere, show his domain exactly how it looked shortly after he finished it. In some of the postcards you can see there is some construction work not quite finished.
The postcards also featured the priest's pets, Marie Denarnaud, his faithful housekeeper, and lots more.
I really like this postcard album as it certainly brought the past alive to me.
I will be visiting Rennes-le-Chateau in 2011 and I will take this album with me so I can note the changes.
It is rumored that the priest left clues to his remaining treasure in his church and domain, maybe I will see something that leads me to it. Now that would make 2011 a good year!
Other related publications I can recommend are Illustrated Guide to Rennes-le-Chateau No. 1: Stations of the Cross, Bas-relief and Statues and Illustrated Guide to Rennes-le-Chateau: No.2: Sauniere's Domain -The Tourist Trail - Chateau's - Places of Interest and what has become some people's bible for researching the Rennes le Chateau Mystery, Ben Hammott's book Lost Tomb of the Knights Templar: Rennes-le-Chateau Secrets and Discoveries
Obtained a copy of this for research and curiosity. I must admit, for the price, I was expecting a bit more. I think that the author is probably attempting to recover the initial cost paid for the originals whilst making a bit on the side. Come on Ben, you could have at least added some footnotes to each card or done some 'then & now' comparison shots with maybe some pictures similar to those in your other books. Would only recommend this for serious RLC researchers.
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