Vanity Fair: A Masonic Plot or a Bizarre Crime? Members of the aristocratic de Védrines family turned over their lives, fortune, and ancestral château to a shadowy “grand master”

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 11:22:57 GMT

In late 2001, some of the de Védrines began to abandon the long-established routines of their lives. Gradually, 11 members of the family, spanning three generations, retreated into their ancestral home, a turreted manor called Château Martel, near the 13th-century village of Monflanquin, in southwestern France.