Dossiers Secrets d'Henri Lobineau

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The Dossiers Secrets d'Henri Lobineau ("Secret Files of Henri Lobineau" in English) is a 27 paged document that was deposited in the Bibliothèque nationale de France on 27 April 1967. The document represents part of the fictitious history of the Priory of Sion as manufactured by the duo of Pierre Plantard and Philippe de Cherisey - and 13 of its 27 pages is taken from another document of the same genre dating from 1964: Henri Lobineau's Généalogie des Rois Mérovingiens et Origine des diverses Familles Françaises et Etrangères de Souche Mérovingienne d’Après L’Abbé Pichon, le Docteur Hervé et les Parchemins de l’Abbé Saunière de Rennes-le-Château (Aude), containing home-made genealogies done on Pierre Plantard's stencil-kit attempting to demonstrate that he was descended from the Merovingian king Dagobert II.^[1]

Apart from those 13 pages, Dossiers Secrets d'Henri Lobineau is comprised of the following material:

An introduction to the document by an Edmond Albe

Maps of France and a Merovingian genealogy from an unspecified scholarly book

Newspaper clippings relating to the freedom of Occitania

A spurious letter attributed to Noel Corbu relating to Emile Hoffet

A spurious letter to Marius Fatin from the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers - that has since been recognised as a forgery because the header does not date from the time it was written

A list of the Grand Masters of the Priory of Sion

A page allegedly from the journal Regnabit, but in actual fact a patchwork of paragraphs from Paul Le Cour's 1937 book, The Age of Aquarius

An obituary of the priest M. L'abbe Geraud de Cayron

The documents were used as source material by Henry Lincoln (who was unaware that they were forgeries) for a series of BBC Two documentaries in the 1970s. Then in 1982, Lincoln and two co-authors, Richard Leigh and Michael Baigent, again used them as source material for the bestselling 1982 pseudohistory book Holy Blood Holy Grail, which was in turn used as source material for the 2003 bestselling novel, The Da Vinci Code.