Langdon explains to Fache that Saunière was a leading authority in the subject of goddess artwork and that the pentacle Saunière drew in his own blood represents an allusion to the goddess and not "devil worship", as Fache believes.Ī police cryptographer, Sophie Neveu secretly explains to Langdon she is Saunière's estranged granddaughter, and that Fache thinks Langdon is the murderer, because of the note her grandfather left saying to "find Robert Langdon," which she says Fache had erased prior to Langdon's arrival. The note also includes a Fibonacci sequence left out of order, as a code. Police Captain Bezu Fache tells him that he was summoned to help the police decode the cryptic message Saunière left during the final minutes of his life. After Saunière's body is discovered in the pose of the Vitruvian Man, the police summon Harvard Professor Robert Langdon, who is in town on business.
Louvre curator and Priory of Sion Grand Master Jacques Saunière is fatally shot one night at the museum by an albino Catholic monk named Silas, who is working on behalf of someone known only as the Teacher, who wishes to discover the location of the "keystone," an item crucial to the search for the Holy Grail. Lebanon have banned the novel, upon the request of the Christian communities living there from the authorities. Middle East, for which many Arab Muslim countries including Sony's Columbia Pictures.The novel received fierce criticism in the West, while it was not banned from being sold in the West, but the opposite took place in the In 2006, a film adaptation was released by In November 2004, Random House published a Special Illustrated Edition with 160 illustrations. Combining the detective, thriller and conspiracy fiction genres, it is Brown's second novel to include the character Robert Langdon, the first being his 2000 novel Angels & Demons. The novel nonetheless became a worldwideīestseller that sold 80 million copies as of 2009 and has been translated into 44 languages. It has also been consistently criticized for its historical and scientific inaccuracies. The book has been extensively denounced by many Christian denominations as an attack on the Roman Catholic Church. The book has provoked a popular interest in speculation concerning the Holy Grail legend and Magdalene's role in the history of Christianity. The book also refers to The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (1982) though Dan Brown has stated that it was not used as research material. Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene, ideas derived from Clive Prince's The Templar Revelation (1997) and books by Margaret Starbird. The novel is part of the exploration of alternative religious history, the central plot point of which is that the Merovingian kings of France were descended from the bloodline of
The title of the novel refers to, among other things, the fact that the murder victim is found in the Grand Gallery of the Louvre, naked and posed like Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing, the Vitruvian Man, with a cryptic message written beside his body and a pentacle drawn on his chest in his own blood. Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu as they investigate a murder in Paris's Louvre Museum and discover a battle between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus having been married to Mary Magdalene.
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The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery-detective novel written by Dan Brown.
Langdon and Jacques Saunière (Tom Hanks and Jean Reno)Īnd Silas (Audrey Tautou and Paul Bettany)
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