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Viewing Saunière's Corpse from "The Da Vinci Code". Fache leads Langdon to the spot where Saunière's naked body lies on the parquet floor, arranged in the shape of a pentacle with a bloody star drawn on his…

Chapter 6, after entering the Grand Gallery

Viewing Saunière's Corpse

Fache leads Langdon to the spot where Saunière's naked body lies on the parquet floor, arranged in the shape of a pentacle with a bloody star drawn on his abdomen. Langdon explains that the pentacle is a pre-Christian symbol of the sacred feminine and the goddess Venus, not devil worship. Fache then reveals a hidden message written in invisible ink on the floor: a series of numbers and the phrases 'O, Draconian devil!' and 'Oh, lame saint!' Langdon is baffled by the cryptic message.