Talk:Razès

THE RAZES WAS A MEDIVAL DISTRICT OF WHICH RHDAE WAS THE CAPITOL. IT WAS A VISIGOTHIC REALM LOCATED IN WHAT WOULD NOW BE CALLED THE LANGUEDOC IN SOUTHERN FRANCE THE CAPITOL RHEDAE  IS NOW RENNES LE CHATEAU  OF "HOLY BLOOD, HOLY GRAIL FAME  PRIOR TO THE VISIGOTHIC ERA IT WAS WITHIN THE AREA OF "SEPTIMANIA" WHICH WAS AN AUTONOMOUS AREA WHICH STRETCHED  ACROSS  SOUTHERN FRANCE AND SOUTHWESTERLY INTO SPAIN AND TOOK IN BARCELONA.   IT WAS A JEWISH PRINCEDOM AND LASTED FOR SEVERAL HUNDREDS OF YEARS. LATER IN ITS HISTORY IT WAS POPULATED BY CATHARS  AN ARIANIST CHRISTIAN SECT THAT HAD DUALIST BELIEFS (SEE MONT SEGUR, ALIGENSIAN CRUSADE)  IT ALSO HAD A HISTORY IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE, AND WAS A STOPPING PLACE ON THE ROUTE OF THE PILGRIMS TO SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA.

SINCE THE PUBLICATION OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED BOOK AND OTHERS OF THE SAME MILIEU, THE SMALL VILLAGE OF RENNES LE CHATEAU HAS EXPERIENCED A NEW INCREASE OF TOURISTS AND WOULD BE TREASURE SEEKERS. BUT ALAS THE TREASURE HAS BEEN ABSENT SINCE THE DAYS OF ABBE BERINGER SAUNIERE (DIED 1917)  BUT STILL THE RUMOUR MILL KEEPS GRINDING OUT MORE AND MORE FANTASTIC LEGENDS AND STORYLINES. WHICH I BELIEVE HAVE REACHED THEIR APEX IN "THE DaVINCI CODE.    BUT IF YOU CAN SET ASIDE THE NECCESITY FOR REALITY  KEEP ON BELIEVING IN THE TREASURE!!!   WHAT REAL HARM CAN IT DO!!!


 * What harm? It is fiction claiming to be the truth. If it admitted being fiction there would be no problem. Valentinian (talk) 23:29, 18 May 2006 (UTC)