Stenay

Stenay

 

 

Flowwritting as per Stenay

 

·         the enviable status of `magic city', connected with mysterious networks to Gisors and its Templars, Rennes-le-Château and its treasure.

·          the seal of the Satan

·         The 'official' history of Stenay is however simple enough… The excellent small guide [1] edited by the Cercle Saint-Dagobert II tells us: North-West of the forest of Woëvre, on the right bank of the Meuse, in the midst of a basin watered by this river, on on the canal of the East, the town was always an important place of war.

From http://www.historywiz.com/louisxvii.htm

The Mystery of the Lost Dauphin, Louis XVII portrait of Louis XVII (unattributed but possibly by Jacques Louis David, the famous revolutionary painter)

for more information The Lost King of France : How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette by Deborah Cadburymore information about this book

The fate of the “lost dauphin,” Louis XVII, has been a subject of mystery for over 200 years. Did he die in prison? Did he escape and become a famous American naturalist, or a German clockmaker, or an Episcopal minister raised by Native Americans? All of these solutions, and more, still have loyal supporters. The issue was laid to rest by DNA testing in 2000. But this is a mystery that just won’t die. There is no question that Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette died under the guillotine during the French Revolution. It is the fate of their 10 year old son, Louis Charles, who disappeared in 1795, that is the mystery. After the death of his father, Louis Charles was the uncrowned King of France, Louis XVII. He and his sister were imprisoned with their mother until July 3, 1793 when guards came in the dead of night to remove the 8-year-old Louis from her arms. Marie Antoinette resisted, clutching the child for nearly an hour, arguing and pleading. Finally she bowed to the inevitable and gave him up. As Marie Therese (Louis' sister) later recalled, "they threatened the lives of both him and me, and my mother's maternal tenderness at length forced her to this sacrifice." Louis was imprisoned alone in a small windowless room. What happened next is at the heart of the mystery. The official record states that Louis died in the Temple prison at the age of 10 on June 8, 1795 from tuberculosis. But few accepted the official verdict. Some said that he died of neglect, some that he was murdered, and others that he did not die at all, but was spirited away to safety and another child put in his place. A doctor who had been summoned to treat the dauphin died mysteriously the week before the boy's death. His widow hinted that he had refused to take part in some irregular practice on the patient. Rumors flew. At first, it was widely believed both in France and Britain that the Committee of Public Safety (the radical governing body of the revolution) had murdered the child. Later public opinion came to favor the escape theory. In 1814 the historian of the newly restored French monarchy announced that Louis Charles had escaped and was still alive. He would not reveal his location however. The most common rumor was that royalists substituted another child in his place and spirited him to America where he would be safe. The rumors did not fade with the passage of time. In 1846 authorities exhumed the mass grave where the child was buried. Only one showed evidence of tuberculosis. But he wasn't a perfect fit. The body appeared to be that of a slightly older child, in his middle to late teens. Of particular interest was the fact that the boy had already cut a wisdom tooth. In the years that followed, at least a hundred men claimed to be the ill-fated prince. The most intriguing candidate was famous naturalist John James Audubon. Although he never publicly claimed it himself, Audubon was thought by many to be the real Louis. He was adopted at about the right time, if indeed Louis had escaped, and was the same age. On a visit to France in 1828, Audubon wrote an intriguing letter home to his wife. In it he said that, "patient, silent, bashful, and yet powerful of physique and of mind, dressed as a common man, I walk the streets! I bow! I ask permission to do this or that! I… who should command all!" A most colorful claimant was perhaps Eleazer Williams. Williams was the descendant of a Mohawk Native American and a white woman who had been kidnapped by the Mohawks at the age of 7. Though raised with the Mohawks, as a teenager he left the tribe, and went on to become an Episcopal minister and a pioneer of Greenbay, Wisconsin. He told his story, The Lost Prince, and became a national celebrity for a few years. He may have been the object of Mark Twain’s satire in Wild Man and Huckleberry Finn. Williams claimed until his death that he was Louis Charles, though there was never any evidence to support his story. His skull was exhumed in 1947 for anthropological study. The conclusion was that Williams probably did have Native American ancestry and so could not have been Louis Charles. The most successful of the claimants was a German clockmaker named Karl Wilhelm Naundorff. He had some evidence to back his claim and had widespread support. He managed to convince the dauphin's childhood nurse, who questioned him at great length about childhood memories. He spent his final years in The Netherlands and was even recognized as Louis Charles by that government, which allowed him to take the family name Bourbon. In 1950 a bone was taken from his grave and later tested for DNA. His DNA did not match any of the DNA available from Marie Antoinette and other members of her family. It appeared that he was an imposter. As the years passed, the speculation continued. Thousands of articles and 600 books have been written about this mystery. The most authoritative are by a French historian and an American journalist. Philippe Delorme, the recognized expert on this story, tells a fascinating tale of mystery and conspiracy and pretenders. Recently Delorme has updated his book (originally L’affaire Louis XVII), Louis XVII: the Truth, now available in English. A new American book by journalist Deborah Cadbury also tells the story (the Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murder of the Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette). In early 2000, scientists did DNA tests on the putative heart of the boy who died of tuberculosis in his prison, and who was presumed to be the prince. A sample from the heart was compared with a lock of hair taken from Marie Antoinette as a child. There was no doubt. The owner of the heart and the queen shared DNA. Delorme organized the tests to finally end the debate. To avoid all question, tests were conducted independently by two different scientists. Jean-Jacques Cassiman, a professor of genetics at Belgium's Louvian University, conducted one test; Ernst Brinkmann of Germany's Muenster University conducted the other. Was it the heart of Louis Charles? The heart has an interesting history of it’s own. It has been shuffling around for over 200 years. The doctor who did the autopsy, Philippe-Jean Pelletan, hid the heart in his handkerchief, stole the heart, and pickled it in alcohol. Later one of his students took it, but on his deathbed, full of remorse, the student asked that it be returned to the doctor. His wife sent it to the Archbishop of Paris where it stayed until the Palace was attacked in the Revolution of 1830. The crystal urn holding the heart was smashed, and the doctor’s son retrieved it from a pile of broken glass. The heart had moved again. After the restoration of the monarchy in 1814, the heart was sent to the Spanish branch of the Bourbon family where it found a new home. Soon, the heart was on the move again - the family returned the heart to Paris. There Louis Charles finally received his due. His heart was placed in a crystal vase in the royal crypt at Saint Denis Basilica, where it stayed until 1999. A piece was removed for DNA tests, and dramatically transported to the lab in a hearse. Is the mystery really solved? The DNA tests did not end the speculation about “the lost dauphin.” Cassiman himself said that this test only established that the boy in the crypt was a relative of Marie Antoinette’s. It is true that the test did not specifically show that the heart they tested was that of the boy, or that the owner of the heart and Marie Antoinette were mother and son. Cassiman said he would leave it to historians to determine whether the boy was in fact the son of Marie Antoinette. Delorme and most historians have accepted the tests as sufficient evidence, but others such as Philippe Boiry (author of Naundorff-Louis XVII), have questioned the conclusion because the heart itself was shuffled around so much. By the time it was tested it was mummified, hard as wood. Is it even the heart of the boy who died in prison? No one can be absolutely sure. Because the tests were not absolutely certain, there is continued speculation from the loyal followers of Eleazer Williams, John James Audubon, and Karl Naundorff. Naundorff’s descendants, who still carry the name Bourbon, have rejected the DNA evidence, and they have asked to have Naundorff’s grave reopened so that there can be more tests. And in Lawrence, Wisconsin, there is still a Lost Dauphin Road, in De Pere the state of Wisconsin still has a Lost Dauphin State Park, and there is still a restaurant named Lost Louie’s. Owner John Nick has no plans to change the name.

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1 January 2013 Last updated at 15:59 GMT

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Blood of Louis XVI 'found in gourd container'

After Louis XVI's beheading, spectators dipped handkerchiefs in his blood

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A team of scientists have said they believe an old gourd contains the blood of French King Louis XVI.

The monarch was killed by guillotine by French revolutionaries more than 200 years ago, on 21 January 1793.

The scientists said the DNA is very similar to genetic material from what is believed to be the mummified head of an earlier French king, AFP reports.

After Louis XVI's beheading many spectators were reported to have dipped their handkerchiefs in his blood.

The piece of fabric had been placed in a dried, hollowed-out gourd, leaving blood stains.

The squash was decorated with images of revolutionary heroes and the words: "On January 21, Maximilien Bourdaloue dipped his handkerchief in the blood of Louis XVI after his decapitation".

The revolutionary souvenir has been in the hands of an Italian family for a century.
'Paternally related'

The research suggests a genetic link between the remains of Henri IV and the blood-soaked gourd

The team of experts from Spain and France has published its findings in Forensic Science International journal.

Analysis of DNA taken from blood traces found inside the vegetable container had already revealed that it probably matched someone of Louis' description but scientists could not prove it belonged to the beheaded king as they had no genetic material from any of his relatives.

However, the team managed to find a rare genetic signature shared with DNA from a mummified head believed to belong to Louis' 16th Century predecessor, Henri IV, who was killed in 1610.

In 2010, scientists said the head belonged to Henri IV, saying it shared the same physical features as those illustrated in contemporary portraits of the king.

French forensic pathologist Philippe Charlier told AFP that the study revealed that both of those sampled "share a genetic heritage passed on through the paternal line. They have a direct link to one another through their fathers".

Co-author of the report, Carles Lalueza Fox, of the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva in Barcelona, was quoted as saying that it was "about 250 times more likely that the [owners of the] head and the blood are paternally related, than unrelated".

Stenay

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The Mystery Stone

THE MYSTERIOUS STONE OF STENAY
Saint-Dagobert II crypt of Stenay shows us a mysterious stone, restored by Gino Frua, member of the Cercle. Here's what says Abbé Vigneron in his "histoire de Stenay":

THE MYSTERIOUS STONE:
The SATOR square Documents taken from "Histoire de Stenay" by the Abbé Vigneron .

CLANDESTINE CHRISTIANS AT STENAY
It seems us this mysterious rock can be explained as a Christian's gesture at a time when there was only a small number of Christians at Stenay.

For explaining it, it must be recalled all the carved stones found at Stenay were found in the foundations of St-Rémi basilica, prior to St-Dagobert church that replaced it in the 9th century.

These stones, reemployed in the foundations, were funerary stelae: the one of which we talk is also a stela but of a particular kind. Mr Plantard, working on the history of Stenay, studied this stela: he considers the letters engraved left and the herringbone pattern traced right of these letters were a "key" able to allow the initiates to refer to the famous `Sator Square'.

That's why opposite we reproduce this well known Sator square. Our drawing of the square has voluntarily increased some letters to help the explanation of M. Plantard to be understood: these letters SRNPR, put back to their place in the square, exactly describe the herringbone pattern engraved on our stone. M. Plantard so has well found the key explaining the mysterious letters of the stela of Stenay.

MEANING OF THE SQUARE

The sator square contains 5 words that can be read in all directions: SATOR, AREPO, TENET, OPERA, ROTAS. The pagans who used the square before the Christians, placed the word ROTAS in the beginning, in lieu of the word SATOR (so at Pompeii). This inversion of two words doesn't change the meaning :

The creator (SATOR), past AREPO, that only makes sense the other way, holds (TENET) with care (OPERA) the wheels (ROTAS). Otherwise said: Who has made, who has `sown' (life, the man, the world) oversees, carefully directs its proceeding. And for the Christians: the Creator of the man has also created Providence.

MEANING OF THE STONE OF STENAY

The occultism of this stela presumes it has been engraved at a time when Christians couldn't show themselves openly: we would readily date it to the late 5th century or the early 6th, era when an upsurge of pagan zeal is expressed, as reaction, after the conversion of Clovis in 496.

Unfortunately the said stone of Stenay is no more at Stenay. It would have been deposited about 1910 by M. Rivart at Mgr Mangin, curate of Stenay, then dwelling at the Market square. M Mangin, died in 1914, didn't witness the removal of this stone in 1917 by the famous Kronprinz who would have it broken declaring (curiously) he was the "Master of the Cross). So it has disappeared (once an interesting monument for History).

C.Vigneron

Stenay and the Devil Stone

TO THE SOURCES OF THE MYTH
In fact the myth will take shape in 1973 with the publication by Gérard de Sède of a `sensationally' entitled work, La Race Fabuleuse, extra- terrestres et mythologie mérovingienne (éditions J’ai Lu, collection l'Aventure Mystérieuse). De Sède is a well-known creator of legends, already holding sway over Gisors and its treasure as well as Rennes-le-Château and the secret of abbé Saunière. This time he relapses to explain us, substantially, the Merovingian dynasty was… of extra-terrestrial origin… And makes, within his demonstration, a great detour by Stenay. Let's try to resume the marking points of the work while specifying the author's source is largely speculative as resting on a series of interviews with a mysterious Marquis de B. whose identity will not be revealed to us…[2]

- On the town's blazon there appears the demon's grimacing and horned face, a figure however never utilized in heraldry… After local investigation, study of the works of an 19th-century archaeologist, a certain Jeantin, and talks to the Marquis de B., de Sède reaches the conclusion Stenay is formerly called Shatan, then Shatenay.