The story is triggered by a murder in Louvre, Paris, as the hero Langdon and Sophie crack the case, a startling secret surface gradually。 Speak in more detail, Robert Landon, a symbologist at Harvard University in Paris on an official trip to, receives an anonymous phone call at midnight to learn that Jacques Saunière, the curator of the Museum of Louvre Museum, has been killed inside the museum。 So he comes to the museum, cooperating with Jacques Saunière's granddaughter, gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, to analyze and investigate a sequence of secret symbols associated with Da Vinci's art works。 The clues are disguised ingeniously by the curator。 They learn that the curator was involved in the Priory of Sion—a true secret society whose members included Botticelli, Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo, and Leonardo da Vinci。 In a tense chase from Paris to London, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a anonymous backstage manipulator who seems to foresee every action of them, and he himself also be chased。 Unless Langdon and Neveu finally decode the elaborate puzzle before others, the Priory of Sion’s ancient secret and a shocked historical truth will be lost forever。来-自~优+尔=论.文,网www.youerw.com +QQ752018766-

1。3 The Significance of The Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code broke the sales records in America with 7。5 million of fiction issue, and its worldwide cumulative sales have exceeded 65 million。 It has been translated into 44 languages as the New York Times bestseller list for 76 weeks, and it can be sold even match the popular British bestseller, the Harry Potter series。 A verity of styles, like detective, surprised and conspiracy combined into one book, therefore, it was popular in the New York Times and Washington Post。 At the same time, it also renewed interest in history of the Catholic。 In short, the book combines cryptography, mathematics, religion, culture, art and semiotics and many other aspects of knowledge。 The author adds a certain scientific background to the traditional plot of reasoning, and some book reviewers call it “a novel that has to be read with an encyclopedia as a reference”。