Père Émile-Henri-Guillaume Hoffet (11 May 1873 – March 1946) [1] belonged to the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, who became famous during the 1960s when he became implicated in the subject matters of Rennes-le-Château and the Priory of Sion.
Émile Hoffet was born in Schiltigheim in Alsace on 11 May 1873, at the time annexed by the German Empire,[2] his father was probably a Lutheran while his mother, Sophie Feisthammel, was a devout Roman Catholic.
The 1965 document attributed to Madeleine Blancassall, Les Descendants Mérovingiens ou l'énigme du Razès wisigoth, claimed Hoffet also knew about the secret of the Château de Gisors (in March 1946, tourist guide Roger Lhomoy claimed he discovered the treasure of the Knights Templar in an alleged subterranean chapel dedicated to Saint Catherine, beneath the tower donjon of the château).
According to de Sède, Monti founded the original order of Alpha-Galates sometime in 1934, was born in about 1880 in Toulouse, adopted and abandoned by an Italian couple, he supposedly died of poisoning at 80, rue du Rocher, situated in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, a short distance from Hoffet's place, on 21 October 1936 and was buried secretly, also alleging Monti was private secretary to Joséphin Péladan[7] and Pierre Plantard's mentor; de Sède also claimed he'd accessed Hoffet's secret archives in 1966.
[8] Dossiers Secrets d'Henri Lobineau (with an introduction attributed to "Edmond Albe"[9]) mentioned Hoffet's death as taking place at 7 rue Blanche, Paris, on 3 March 1946.