The Entente Cordiale treasure hunt begins this Thursday.
Nine enigmas are to be solved from a book of enigmas Le Trésor de l'Entente Cordiale, in order to hope to discover the booty: a box worth 750,000 euros, offered by Edward VII to President Emile Loubet to symbolize the agreement Franco-British.
To your shovels and your brains!
The Entente Cordiale treasure hunt begins this Thursday with the publication of the book
Le Trésor de l'Entente Cordiale
.
Simultaneously, two books were published in France and England, containing puzzles to be solved and allowing volunteer hunters to discover the loot, a box worth 750,000 euros.
The award is also historic: it is the real box given by Edward VII to French President Emile Loubet to symbolize the cordial agreement between Great Britain and France.
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Two geodes to assemble
On each page of the book, there is an image and a text to decipher.
And pay attention to details: bold letters, for example, can guide players.
The answers to the nine puzzles allow us to discover the location of half of a geode, the other being buried across the Channel.
Once the two parts are together, the participants will meet Michel Becker, purchaser of the box in 2017 and organizer of the treasure hunt.
"These two pieces of assembled geodes come to be inserted in a key ring. And the fact of returning this geode in the ring of the key makes it possible to make the key functional and to make it open a large transparent chest inside. of which is the famous gold box ", he indicates at the microphone of Europe 1.
In search of the Golden Owl
Michel Becker is no stranger to the world of treasure hunting.
He is also one of the organizers of the hunt "On the trail of the golden owl", which aims to find a statuette of the bird valued at 150,000 euros which has not been found since. 1993, date of the launch of the hunt.
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"Owls" and "Owls" are still mobilized to try to find her, like Tina Deli, who started in 1996. She has already made two attempts with her shovel.
“Honestly, I went there a lot more to reassure myself, I didn't really have any places to dig with my shovel,” she says.
"I dug a little bit by bit, not very deep. We make a hole and start over."
For this Entente Cordiale treasure, there is no planned end date.
The treasure hunt should therefore last a few more years.
Between "four and five years" according to its creators, cited by
Le Parisien
.