Rennes-le-Château, a tiny French village in the foothills of the Pyrenees, is a site, which holds a sinister history and profound mystery. There, Bérenger Saunière made a discovery of some kind during renovations to his dilapidated tenth-century parish church, and from the discovery, he became immensely wealthy.

-- Picknett, Lynn and Clive Prince, The Templar Revelation, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1998. Pages 181-182