Lifted this rather nice photo of Henry from the internet, where there is a great deal about him... his WikiP page will give you all his biographical stuff (he was in his '90's, amazingly)
Most Esperaza people will have run into him over the years, either lecturing or wandering about Rennes le Chateau. His rather proprietal air was more than justified. It's safe to say that he created this area; his book (co-authored with Micheal Baigent and Richard Leigh) Holy Blood, Holy Grail was a game changer and of course triggered Dan Browns success with the Da Vinci Code. Famously, Baigent and Leigh lost their court case for plaigerism against Brown - which judgement is still a bit of a puzzle, plus also the lost appeal - but Henry laughed about it, since his sales rocketed amazingly and the whole legal matter was paid for by his co-authors. (He'd fallen out with them both long before, so it must have felt most poetic)
His latter years were painfull and he rarely ventured out, though he occasionally allowed a scholar to visit. Rupert Soskin (his son) and Ruperts wife Julie have cared for him for many years. Sending love to them...
And shouldn't we be thinking about a monument of some sort, as the mystical 'father' of the region?
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