Hi Luc. Please call me Chris.
Below is most of what I have gathered about the Pas de Loup over the years. The first paragraph is the most important and u can see that Simon de Montfort quelled the Cathare rebellion. I have read very thoroughly this subject and I believe the graves in Pas de Loup are those of Cathares. This is what I am going on. Have you been there yourself?
n 1209, under cover of fighting against the Cathar Heresy, the Rhazes was put to blood and flre by Simon de Montfort and his crusaders, who were sent by the King of France, Philippe Auguste, to subdue the powerful Languedoc and re-tie the lands to the French Crown. Dismantled and ruined it became a simple stranded small town, and it fell to Lieutenant Pierre de Voisins who became the founder of a new dynasty. Today many ossuaries hear witness to the bloody battles which took place in the area during all this period. Tracing the present access road in 1908, the workmen discovered an impressive ossuary (several hundred metres long), with skeletons laid and stacked up six to eight layers high oriented East/West. Another was discovered at the Pasdu-Loup near the fortress ramparts; and recently while digging then foundations for the water tower on the parking place, workmen discovered a natural rift full of skeletons thrown in haphazardly. The fault was immediately tilled in and the subfoundation of the water tower was displaced.
In 1209 the castle was conquered by Simon de Montfort in the Albigensean Crusade. He gave the castle, which was now called Ch?teau de Blanchafort and the surrounding lands to his comrade in arms Pierre de Voisins. The lands included Rennes-le-Ch?teau, where De Voisins found a permanent residence in what we now know as the Ch?teau Hautpoul.
In 1832 a book by Auguste de Labou?sse-Rochefort entitled Voyages ? Rennes-les-Bains first referred to a treasure located at Mont Blanchefort. It related a story about a wizard who almost succeeded in taking the purse-strings of the Devil, but failed because the local villagers did not help him at the crucial moment. In Les Amours A ?l?onore, recueil d??l?gies divis? en Trois Livres (1817), de Labou?sse-Rochefort used the motto "Et in Arcadia ego" on the books title page; this was a reference to the Academy of Arcadia that was formed in Italy in 1690 - Labou?sse-Rochefort became a member of the Academy in 1832, but the phrase and painting of the same name by Nicolas Poussin would become a major feature in various alleged mysteries surrounding Rennes-le-Ch?teau.
The junction of the road from Rennes-les-Bains with the main road from Arques to Couiza was guarded by a castle known as the Chateau de Blanchefort ("white fortress"). This was the seat of a noble familily which took its name from the place and was closely linked with the Hautpoule family at Rennes-le-Ch?teau. The ch?teaux at Blanchefort and at Rennes-le-Ch?teau are 4 km apart and within sight of each other. Blanchefort lies on the other side of the road from Mount Cardou, which according to a few credulous souls is the burial site of Jesus Christ. Today you can still see the ruins of Castle Blanchefort, on Mt. Blanchefort an hour's walk from Rennes-les-Bains (no other way to get there). Location 443811m E 4754149m N
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