 Noël Corbu incorporated this story into his essay "L'histoire de Rennes-le-Château", deposited at the Departmental Archives at Carcassonne on 14 June 1962.Fédié's assertions concerning the population and importance of Rhedae have since been questioned in the work of archaeologists and historians.Corbu's story was published in the book by Robert Charroux "Trésors du monde" in 1962, that caught the attention of Pierre Plantard, who, through motives which remain unclear, used and adapted Corbu's story involving the apocryphal history of the Prieuré de Sion, inspiring the 1967 book "L'Or de Rennes" by Gérard de Sède.