Nicolas Flamel in The Da Vinci Code

[Caius Marcius]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "kp0027" <kate.p.watson at l...> 
wrote:
> I've been a lurker here on the HPfGU list for a little while, but 
this
> weekend I came across a coincidence that (to my knowledge) no one 
> has pointed out on this board.  I was reading Dan Brown's The Da 
Vinci
> Code (TDVC) when a familiar name appeared.  In TDVC, Brown lists 
> the names of the Grand Masters of an acient secret society called 
the
> Priory of Sion.  The essential purpose of this society was/is to 
> guard the location of the holy grail, and in the preface of the 
> book, Dan Brown states that what he writes about the society has 
been
> researched and backed up. 

The Priory of Sion appears to be another one of those Conspiracy 
Theories that spring from the same types who rail on about Masons or 
the Trilateral Commission. 

http://www.alchemylab.com/flameltestament.htm

This excellent online biography on Flamel fails to mention the Priory:

http://www.alchemylab.com/flamel.htm#Nicholas%20Flamel's%20Journey

  - CMC (whatever you do, don't get me started on what Brown says 
about Constantine)