After Seven centuries...

Everywhere exists a Templars presence, there is " Somebody who knows"..., somebody who, with patience and passion, dug the question, located the places, to check the local traditions. It Exist often testimonies of this research: notes, files, handwritten book, at the bottom of a drawer. Meeting with these people (one is leaving you speak, one is awaiting you a word, a sign of recognition, then in confidence, one is delivering his knowledge...) at least brings a human heat that do not exempt, to the first degree, files and old papers, in spite of their clean "load"... There is the occasional pedestrian which show to you, under the undergrowth, the old “ pattée” cross that his grandfather have showed to him..., the pleasant lady who guide you in Fanjac and show you the engraved crosses on her houses..., the person who tells to you a confused legend, until a term makes draw up your ear..., all the solicited people who agree to search, to question around them and communicate indices... All these people are finally the last chance the ultimate witness of the past : they have some bits of a tradition, or an objective knowledge, which will disappear with them. Ultimate past, so many traces left by Templars order have disappeared recently : the example of VAOUR is obvious, the commandery was preserved almost intact with its keep up to 1900 , today it does not remain a lot, only some walls. This one having been used as stone quarry for the close village. It is necessary to be aware to this collective memory, to accept the principle of it, to admit possible irrationality of it: in a word, to take it into account . There is sixty years, in the high Razès, the knell sounded in Bézu, once the year and the parishioners requested then for the "poor Templars...". Today, the hamlet is practically deserted, the chapel is closed, if not closed down, and the knell does not sound any more... Objectively or not, reliable or not, knowledge of the local researchers all is almost dedicated to disappear: when they were “published”, it was often the object of a restricted pulling, parochial or communal bulletin, school newspaper... it is necessary to underline the tireless action of the learned societies, collecting and publishing work of their members, concerning primarily on the local history. All this work are made available for researchers by catalogues published at the national level. This knowledge and the photographs of these vestiges TEMPLUM, in the measurement of its means, propose you to gather, engraved either in stone but on hard disks, in order to leave indisputable evidence, still visible far from tumult, phantasms and delirious which are surrounding the temple Knights.

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