Robert Charroux
Robert Charroux was the best-known pen-name of Robert Joseph Grugeau (April 7, 1909 – June 24, 1978). He was a
Career
Charroux worked for the French post office and wrote eight works of fiction between 1942 and 1946 using the pseudonym Saint-Saviol. He also wrote the scripts for a French comic strip, Atomas, about an atomic-powered superhero, appearing in the weekly magazine Mon Journal in the late 1940s. For the same magazine Charroux wrote a science fiction adventure in serial form, "Prof. Barthelemy's Flying Island." He first began using the pseudonym Charroux in 1942, that became his regular pseudonym from 1962 onwards.
Robert Charroux married Yvette Bernuchot in April 1930. It has been said that they lived on rue St Sulpice in Paris during the late 1950s, however it is unclear whether this is a coincidence or error: they did in fact live on Rue St Sulpice in the village of Charroux in the Vienne for a number of years and there is a plaque attesting to this on the walls of the now derelict building.
In 1976 he began making plans to be buried in the cemetery of Charroux.
Ancient astronauts
Charroux was a pioneer of the theory of ancient astronauts, publishing at least six fiction works in this genre in the last decade of his life, including One Hundred Thousand Years of Man's Unknown History (1963, 1970), Forgotten Worlds (1973), Masters of the World (1974), The Gods Unknown (1964, 1974) and Legacy of the Gods (1965, 1974).
The influence that Charroux's first work (in its 1963 version) had on
Charroux's theories concerning Ancient Astronauts were criticised by French archaeologist Jean-Pierre Adam in 1975.[2] His works have been described as pseudohistory.[3]
Other views
Some see his works as examples of Celticism.
Writing in his book Lost Worlds Charroux rejected
Unlike most
Rennes-le-Château
Robert Charroux developed an active interest in the alleged treasure of
Publications
- Trésors du monde (1962)
- Histoire inconnue des hommes depuis 100.000 ans (1963)
- Le livre des secrets trahis (1964)
- Le livre des maîtres du monde (1967)
- Le livre du mystérieux inconnu (1969)
- Le livre des mondes oubliés (1969)
- Le livre du passé mystérieux (1973)
- L'énigme des Andes (1974)
- Archives des autres mondes (1977)
References
- ISBN 1-59102-352-1"French author Robert Charroux was among the first to expand on the ancient-astronaut theme".
- ^ Jean-Pierre Adam, L'archéologie devant l'imposture (Paris, Robert Laffont 1975).
- ^ Legrand, H. E; Boese, Wayne E. (1975). Chariots of the Gods? And All That: Pseudo-History in the Classroom. The History Teacher. Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 359-370.
- ^ Charroux, Robert. (1974). Lost Worlds: Scientific Secrets of the Ancients. Fontana. p. 97
- ^ Charroux, Robert. (1974). Lost Worlds: Scientific Secrets of the Ancients. Fontana. pp. 39-44
- ^ Charroux, Robert. (1974). The Mysterious Past. Futura Publications Ltd. pp. 29-30
- ^ Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. (2003). Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity. pp. 117-118
- ^ Godwin, Joscelyn. (2010). Atlantis and the Cycles of Time: Prophecies, Traditions, and Occult Revelations. pp. 55-57
- ^ "Denise Carvenne". IMDb.
- ^ Pierre Jarnac, Histoire du Trésor de Rennes-le-Château (L’Association pour le développement de la lecture, 1985; reprinted by Editions Bélisane: Nice, 1998).
- ^ Pierre Jarnac, Les Archives de Rennes-le-Château (2 volumes, Editions Bélisane, 1987-1988).
- ^ Robert Charroux, Treasures of the World (Muller, 1967).
- Story, Ronald, ISBN 0-06-464040-X.