Philippe de Cherisey and the Priory of Sion Hoax

[Nautonnier]

Philippe de Cherisey from Stone and Paper:

"Ah dear reader, to whom we told everything and yet you heard nothing, what honor, you poor dummy, could we bestow upon you and how could take seriously all these complaints about us stuffing your brains up. Certainly Gérard de Sède and I stuffed your brains up, but isn't that what you want – cheap fantasies that have only one purpose, to enrich the people who create them.

No doubt you think that we poets take a sadistic pleasure in fooling you? But alas we don't. I repeat: hoaxing people involves a laborious life of asceticism of which we are the first penitents until we succeed in creating a beautiful hoax that will fool us well before it fools you."