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Article: Does the devil make them do it? Tourists like explosions, grave digging
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- November 1, 2004
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There's profit in things that go bump in the night, though for the
mayor of the devil-infested French hamlet of Rennes-le-Chateau, it's
the dynamite going boom that has him tallying the mysteries evoked in
Dan Brown's bestseller The Da Vinci Code.
"They set off explosions at all hours, and climb over the cemetery
wall to dig up the dead," says Mayor Jean-Francois L'Huilier, whose
mountain village of 112 people atop the Valley of God in southwestern
France has become a mecca for fans of novelist Brown's best-seller.
"It's a remarkable book, but I'm afraid the world has entered a
period of imperceptible folly," says the former French paratrooper-
turned-politician. "And that's why I had to ...