+JEANNE de ALBRET+ 1528-1572 (QUEEN OF NAVARRE) >was a rather amazing persona ++++++++++++++++++++ >THE FIRST MODERN WOMAN< (it has been said) **************** +HER MOTHER MARGUERITE WAS THE (marguerite de angouleme) +SISTER OF OUR KING FRANCOIS 1st. (father was charles de angouleme) ********************************** +MICHAEL deGRUYERE, THE LAST COUNT RAISED WITH THEM (paris, bordeaux, loire) ********************** >(remember their grandmother was (SAVOY/BRESSE/GRUYERE) >our savoy/french queen louise daughter of phillipe de bresse) ******************************* +ANGOULEME IS N. E. OF BORDEAUX (source of the lamothe, cavaroc (BORDEAUX AREA) >& leroy new orleans families) ****************************** +ELIZABETH SABINE de MONTAUT de MANTBERAUD, WIFE OF JEAN BAPT. VALENTIN VERLOIN deGRUY ***************************** >was a direct descendent of +QUEEN JEANNE deALBRET+ *************************** >ONE MUST LOOK @ THE MAP< >if one looks at the map of southwest france the picture becomes v. clear. ************************************ +TARBES ET LOURDES+ (southeast of bordeaux) 1) jeanne de albret's castle was at the sacred town of lourdes, only a few (SAINTS & MIRACLES) >miles from the village of tarbes et lourdes, her mies en scene. ******************************* +THE HILLTOP CASTLES OF THE COUNTS de MONTAUT de MONTBERAUD >are just a few miles to the east< ******************************** +THIS IS CATHAR / KNIGHTS TEMPLAR COUNTRY, NOT FAR FROM THE (birth of western art) +LASCAUX CAVES AND, YES, +RENNES LE CHATEAUX+. ************************ L A N G U E D O C ****************** >this powerful region was where the GREAT KING CHARLEMAGNE defeated the saracens +THE LAND OF OC+ ****************** >THE CIVILIZATION HERE WAS EARLIER (troubadours/grail legends) >THEN THAT OF THE NORTH/GAULS (the language distinctly different) ********************************** +R H A E D A E+ THE 3RD LARGEST VISIGOTHIC CITY was located near rennes le chateau and the stone beehive houses are still to be found in ruins nearby. ********************************* (merovingian stronghold) +GOOD KING DAGOBERT'S SON+ (rennes le chateaux, 659) >SIGEBERT TAKEN HERE AFTER HIS FATHER WAS MURDERED ******************************* >THE HOLY BLOOD, HOLY GRAIL LEGEND CONSTRUCTED ON THIS FOUNDATION which makes jeanne de albrets stand ( HUGUENOT ) >a rather strange irony, resulting in >"THE WAR OF RELIGIONS"< ************************* (1562) +BEZU - BIGOU - BEZOU+ >i find it rather amazing that 1 of the priests in the story of rennes le chateau was reverand bigou ****************************** >THE VILLAGE NEAR RENNES le CHATEAU IS BEZU ! ********************* WHILE REV. HENRY C. BEZOU >was for many years a major degruy scholar regarding jefferson parish, *********************************** +S Y N C H R O N I C I T Y+ one has to wonder his >O R I G I N S< **************** gene ray, san diego, california