June 1956. Rennes-le-Château "Who will find the treasure of Blanche de Castille? "

Slipped through the cracks, it seems that this article has escaped the sagacity of the researchers. Found in the weekly "paper" called Benjamin, [No. 183, of June 3, 1956.
p. 11],  its author, Jean Charneve, evokes the excavations of Dr. Malacan (which he spells Malacamp). He quickly presents the village of Rennes to address the hypothesis of the treasure of Blanche de Castille.
 There is talk of an expenditure of one million gold francs "paid in cash", for the construction of the domain, wanted by Abbé Saunière. So that in 1917, at her death, it was the servant, Marie Dénarnaud, instituted his universal legatee, who collected this problematic inheritance. 

"She will be alone at the castle (1)," says Jean Charneve, and for thirty years [she] did not even go down once to the neighbouring village of Couiza. 
 When she agreed to sell the estate to Noël Corbu in 1946 (and not 1947), she would have had this clarification: "Certainly," she said, "I heard about the abbot, of the parchments enclosed in rolls of wood, but I don't know what they were saying and where they went."


It's really the legend on the move... 
When the old woman died on January 29, 1953, at the age of 85, she took the secret to her grave, leaving her benefactor in uncertainty ...  Except that his [Noël Corbu] excavations, to him, hardly bring him back old rusty weapons and an Iberian skeleton!


It is therefore without a priori that he lets his clients handle the shovel and the pickaxe in the park. "The owner of the Hôtel de la Tour even provides the tools to those who do not have them," emphasises our narrator. 
Consolation, if you don't find the treasure, you will at least have a beautiful landscape! And then, who knows, Charneve interjects in conclusion, someone will have to discover this treasure one day!"

(1) It was then the quarrel about this name between the Magdala tower (described as "castle") and the Hautpoul castle. This distortion is found in the interview with Noël Corbu that Robert Charroux published in Trésors du monde (1962)

From Pierre Jarnac's site - Radio Magdala - HERE