(Q - Skybears: And precisely, you talk about the 2 traits of genius, and then could you talk about the 2nd card? You recently talked about it in writing, but do you
can you really say if this 2nd card is really useless or with a good key, it could be useful??)
MB: So what is certain is that the 2nd map in no way allows you to find the cache. So, it is of no use. At the start of this hunt, Max Valentin made it clear that a map of France was needed, the 989, in this case, very well, everyone knows it. OK, then like everything that happened around this hunt, and I remind you that Max Valentin was a beginner, he had never done that in his life, he was a communicator. He improvised this thing by saying well it's a good thing to sell to a client to enhance his brand, to promote himself. He had concocted this as an advertising product. He had no experience with treasure hunting and he must have organized one or 2 surprise rallies in his life, talk about something good. So when he actually started this story, he did it in a totally, how should I say, naive way, he went with the gun. Me too by the way.
And when he saw that, OK, the map of France at the time was the 989. Everyone bought the 989, very good, but I even remember that we had put one in the window of the Virgin Megastore in 97 when we exhibited there, when Lafont released the book and I exhibited some paintings under the Louvre pyramid. There was this card in the window where I had fun drawing just about anything on it since I didn't know the solutions. I had done a bit of anything and I remember that some cool people had photographed it and said to themselves, there must be some information, but that was the start.
And then all of a sudden, without knowing why, there was talk of a 2nd card. And there all of a sudden, Max Valentin who had always said: all you need is a card of France, he said yes yes yes, you need a 2nd card of course, very good, the 2nd card, perfect. But I tell you, the 2nd card is useless and I mentioned the notion of belt and suspenders, that is to say that indeed, when we want to be sure of something, when we want to check something, we can always equip ourselves with additional instruments. The 2nd map that you mention, therefore on a much more precise scale, et cetera, can actually be considered as an interesting tool to confirm an idea. But after that it's over, apart from saying yes on the 2nd card, I can, I see much more clearly what interests me. I repeat that today, we absolutely do not need this 2nd card and I think that already in 1993, it was entirely possible to do without it.
MB: So what is certain is that the 2nd map in no way allows you to find the cache. So, it is of no use. At the start of this hunt, Max Valentin made it clear that a map of France was needed, the 989, in this case, very well, everyone knows it. OK, then like everything that happened around this hunt, and I remind you that Max Valentin was a beginner, he had never done that in his life, he was a communicator. He improvised this thing by saying well it's a good thing to sell to a client to enhance his brand, to promote himself. He had concocted this as an advertising product. He had no experience with treasure hunting and he must have organized one or 2 surprise rallies in his life, talk about something good. So when he actually started this story, he did it in a totally, how should I say, naive way, he went with the gun. Me too by the way.
And when he saw that, OK, the map of France at the time was the 989. Everyone bought the 989, very good, but I even remember that we had put one in the window of the Virgin Megastore in 97 when we exhibited there, when Lafont released the book and I exhibited some paintings under the Louvre pyramid. There was this card in the window where I had fun drawing just about anything on it since I didn't know the solutions. I had done a bit of anything and I remember that some cool people had photographed it and said to themselves, there must be some information, but that was the start.
And then all of a sudden, without knowing why, there was talk of a 2nd card. And there all of a sudden, Max Valentin who had always said: all you need is a card of France, he said yes yes yes, you need a 2nd card of course, very good, the 2nd card, perfect. But I tell you, the 2nd card is useless and I mentioned the notion of belt and suspenders, that is to say that indeed, when we want to be sure of something, when we want to check something, we can always equip ourselves with additional instruments. The 2nd map that you mention, therefore on a much more precise scale, et cetera, can actually be considered as an interesting tool to confirm an idea. But after that it's over, apart from saying yes on the 2nd card, I can, I see much more clearly what interests me. I repeat that today, we absolutely do not need this 2nd card and I think that already in 1993, it was entirely possible to do without it.