Yet the really extraordinary thing isn’t Brown’s plot, which is, indeed, pure fantasy. The Priory Of Sion, he adds, is a ‘real organisation’, and there are documents in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France that prove it. In an explanatory note, he writes ‘all descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents and secret rituals in this novel are accurate’. You might well think this utter tosh, but Dan Brown has always maintained that it’s absolutely true. The secret is guarded by a shadowy group called the Priory Of Sion, whose heads included household names such as Leonardo da Vinci, Victor Hugo and Sir Isaac Newton. The child’s descendants became the Merovingian dynasty of Frankish kings, who ruled over what is now France between the 5th and 8th centuries.Īccording to The Da Vinci Code, Christ’s bloodline survives to this day. So begins Dan Brown’s thriller The Da Vinci Code, one of this century’s most remarkable publishing sensations, which was released 20 years ago this week, on March 18, 2003īut as Brown addicts insisted, the appeal lay in its page-turning story, as well as the murky history behind it.įor the supposed truth, which the Catholic Church has been covering up for centuries, is that Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene - a woman of dubious morals who became one of his most devoted disciples - had a child.
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