{"id":3619,"date":"2025-04-06T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labuse-facts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/06\/1-le-flibustier-mysterieux\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T07:54:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T05:54:47","slug":"1-le-flibustier-mysterieux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labuse-facts.com\/en\/index.php\/2025\/04\/06\/1-le-flibustier-mysterieux\/","title":{"rendered":"1 LE FLIBUSTIER MYSTERIEUX"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LE FLIBUSTIER MYSTERIEUX
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A cryptic cipher, a woman from Africa, a pirate with enigmatic last words \u2013 and a treasure that has yet to be found. When Charles de La Ronci\u00e8re published the book ‘Le flibustier myst\u00e9rieux’ in 1934, he sparked more than just literary interest.<\/em> The encrypted message printed on page 9, supposedly the legacy of the legendary pirate La Buse, continues to fascinate adventurers, historians and treasure hunters to this day. Who was the mysterious woman who brought him the document? What is the real origin of the text? And above all: does the code really lead to a hidden treasure?<\/em><\/p>\n

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In 1934, Charles De La Ronci\u00e8re (1870-1941), a highly decorated author and curator at the French National Library, published a small book entitled \u2018Le flibustier myst\u00e9rieux\u2019<\/i> (The Mysterious Pirate). On page 9, a cryptogram, a document in an unknown script, is printed. According to the author, a woman \u2018from a distant region of Africa\u2019<\/i> approached him and asked him for a copy of the \u2018Keys of Solomon\u2019<\/i> (Latin: Clavicula Salomonis; clavicula<\/i> actually means collarbone<\/i>), a 14th or 15th century book of magic from the Italian Renaissance that was wrongly attributed to King Solomon. She needed the book to decode the cipher. The woman claimed that she had found petroglyphs and other clues on her property indicating that the piece of paper probably contained information about a valuable treasure. De la Ronci\u00e8re recognised the text as a well-known Masonic cipher<\/a> and determined that the base language was French based on the frequency of the individual letters. The 17 lines of the document have no recognisable word or sentence breaks and no punctuation marks.<\/p>\n

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The cryptogram in \u2018Le flibustier myst\u00e9rieux\u2019. All dirt has been retouched away.<\/p><\/div>\n

The text that emerges after the scrupulous decoding with the help of the transcription key in the book is as follows:<\/p>\n

01\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 APRE D MEZUNEPAIREDEPIJONTIRESKET<\/p>\n

02\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2 <\/strong>DOEURSQESEAJTETECHERALFUNEKORT<\/p>\n

03\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 FILTTINSHIENTECUPRENEZUNECULLIERE<\/p>\n

04\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 DEMIELLEEFOVTREFOUSENFAITESUNEONGAT<\/p>\n

05\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 METTEZSURKEPATAIEDELAPERTOTITOUSN<\/p>\n

06 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0VPULEZOLVSPRENEZ 2 <\/strong>LETCASSESURLECH<\/p>\n

07 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 EMINILFAUTQOEUTTOITANOITIECOUUE<\/p>\n

08 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 POVRENPECGERUNEFEMMEDHRENGTVOUSNAVE<\/p>\n

09 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 QUAVOUSSERERLADOBAUCGEAETPOURVE<\/p>\n

10 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NGRAAIETPOREPINGLEOUEIUILETURLOR<\/p>\n

11 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 EILJNOURLAIREPITERUNCHIENTUPQUN<\/p>\n

12 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LENENDELAMERDEBIENTECJEETSURRU<\/p>\n

13 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NVOVLENQUILNISEIUDFKUUNEFEMMRQ<\/p>\n

14 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 IVEUTSEFAIREDUNHMETSEDETE SU<\/strong>D RE<\/p>\n

15 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 DANSDUUI . OOUQNDORMIRUNHOMMR<\/p>\n

16 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ESSCFVMM \/ <\/strong>PLFAUTNRENDREUDLQ<\/p>\n

17 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 UUNDIFFURQECIEEFURTETLESL<\/p>\n

Ronci\u00e8re’s own \u2018transmission\u2019<\/i> is a mixture of a literal transcription and an attempt to interpret the content.<\/p>\n

(1re ligne)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I. Prenez une paire de pijon virez les<\/p>\n

(2e ligne)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2 coeurs \u2026 t\u00eate cheval \u2026 une kort<\/p>\n

(3e ligne)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 fil winishient \u00e9cu prenez une cuill\u00e8re<\/p>\n

(4e ligne)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 de mielle\u00a0 outre vous en faites une ongat<\/p>\n

(5e ligne)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 mettez sur le passage de la \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

(6e ligne)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2026\u2026\u2026.. prenez 2 liv cass\u00e9 sur le ch-<\/p>\n

(7e ligne)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (ch)emin, il faut \u2026.. toit \u00e0 moiti\u00e9 couv\u00e9<\/p>\n

(8e ligne)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 pour empecher une femme \u2026\u2026. vous n\u2019av\u00e9<\/p>\n

(9e ligne)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 qu\u2019\u00e0 vous serer la \u2026\u2026\u2026.. pour ve-<\/p>\n

(10e ligne)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 nir \u2026\u2026.. \u00e9pingle \u2026 juilet \u2026..<\/p>\n

(11e ligne)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2026\u2026.. faire piter un chien turq un<\/p>\n

(12e ligne)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2026.. de la mer.. bien s\u00e8che et sur ..<\/p>\n

(13e ligne)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 k\u2019unne femme q\u2019<\/p>\n

(14e ligne)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (qu)i veut se faire d\u2019un \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n

(15e ligne)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 dans \u2026\u2026\u2026 dormir\u00a0\u00a0 un homm(e) r<\/p>\n

(16e ligne)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2026\u2026\u2026 faut rendre \u2026 q<\/p>\n

(17e ligne)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (q)u\u2019un diffur (?) \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/p>\n

In the further course of the book, the author speculates about which pirate could be the writer of the cryptogram. He is absolutely convinced that it must be Olivier Levasseur, known as \u2018La Buse\u2019, a man from Calais. And he writes the three lines that for 90 years have led adventurers, romantics and daring treasure hunters to lose themselves in wild speculation and wild adventures:<\/p>\n

\u2018Tradition has it that the pirate who hid his treasure held out his cryptogram to the crowd before going to his execution, and his last words were like a will: ‘<\/em><\/b>For the one who will discover\/find it<\/strong><\/em>\u2019<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00abLa tradition veut que le forban, qui cacha son tr\u00e9sor, tend\u00eet \u00e0 la foule son cryptogramme avant de marcher au supplice et que ses derni\u00e8res paroles fussent comme un testament: “Pour celui qui le d\u00e9couvira.<\/strong>\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n

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Das Kryptogramm bei Andr\u00e9 Charroux. Auff\u00e4llig ist er “Fleck” auf Zeile 15.<\/p><\/div>\n

In 1962, the cryptogram was republished in Andr\u00e9 Charroux’s book \u2018Tr\u00e9sors du monde : enterr\u00e9s, emur\u00e9s, engloutis\u2019<\/i>. It is a photographic reproduction from the \u2018Flibustier mysterieux\u2019<\/i>. A new version was not published until the 1968 reprint. At first glance, it appears to correspond to that of de La Ronci\u00e8re. On closer inspection, however, one discovers several \u2018dirt marks\u2019<\/i> that were apparently retouched out of the Flibustier version. Particularly striking is a round spot on the 15th line, which lies in a large gap between two characters of the code.<\/p>\n

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A direct overlay of the two versions of the cryptogram shows that the characters are obviously identical (as can be seen, for example, from the single spot above the third character of the first line, which was not retouched in de La Ronci\u00e8re). However, there are slight displacements. It can be assumed that these are two different photographs or negatives of the same original document. In his latest book, Cyrille Lougnon assumes that Charroux obtained the picture or the \u2018copy of the manuscript\u2019 <\/i>via de La Ronci\u00e8re’s daughter Monique. Under the cryptogram at Charroux’s, the source is given as:<\/p>\n

\u2018Cryptogram of the pirate\u2019 found on the island of Mah\u00e9. This is an encrypted message that the pirate La Buse threw into the crowd on his way to the gallows, which was supposed to reveal the location of his treasure. (ph. Bibl. Nat.)<\/em><\/p>\n

The decoding key that Charroux took over from de La Ronci\u00e8re is also said to be in the Biblioth\u00e8que Nationale, according to bibliographic information. However, inquiries to this institution are always answered in the same way: the library never had the cryptogram and the decoding key.<\/b><\/p>\n

In 1949, according to a 1958 article by Ian Fleming<\/i>, the \u2018woman from the Indian Ocean\u2019<\/i>, later identified as Marie L\u00e9oncine Rose Savy (1870-1952), handed over the documents to R\u00e9ginald Cruise-Wilkins<\/i> for 200 pounds sterling (or $29, according to another source). Cruise-Wilkins was a British former non-commissioned officer and military instructor. He came to the Seychelles in 1947 to recover from malaria while serving as managing director of a transport company in Kenya, when he met Madame Savy. Reginald searched in vain for the treasure of La Buse until his death in 1977. In 1987, Reginald’s son, John Cruise-Wilkins<\/i>, resumed the search for the treasure. It can be assumed that the cryptogram that de La Ronci\u00e8re printed in his book was last in John’s hands or is still there.<\/p>\n

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John Cruise-Wilkins auf Mah\u00e9<\/p><\/div>\n

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Rose Savy<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sources mentioned:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

– de La Ronci\u00e8re<\/strong>, Charles de: Le flibustier myst\u00e9rieux: histoire d’un tr\u00e9sor cach\u00e9. Paris: Le Masque, 1934. \u200b<\/p>\n

– Charroux<\/strong>, Robert: Tr\u00e9sors du monde: enterr\u00e9s, emmur\u00e9s, engloutis. Paris: Fayard, 1962\/1968<\/p>\n

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All articles Cryptogram<\/a>
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The secret script that has been sparking the imagination of many people for 90 years in all its aspects.<\/a><\/p>\n

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All articles La Buse<\/a>
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The life and deeds of the most famous French pirate of the 18th century.<\/a><\/p>\n

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All articles Backgrounds<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n

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Stories and history surrounding the \u2018Golden Age of Piracy,\u2019 La Buse, and the cryptogram.<\/a><\/p>\n

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