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The Da Vinci Code
The Da Vinci Code
is a 2003
mystery
-
detective
novel by
Dan Brown
. It follows
symbologist
Robert Langdon
and cryptologist
Sophie Neveu
after a murder in the
Louvre Museum
in Paris, when they become involved in a battle between the
Priory of Sion
and
Opus Dei
over the possibility of
Jesus Christ
having been married to
Mary Magdalene
. The title of the novel refers, among other things, to the finding of the first murder victim in the Grand Gallery of the Louvre, naked and posed like
Leonardo da Vinci
's famous drawing, the
Vitruvian Man
, with a cryptic message written beside his body and a
pentagram
drawn on his chest in his own blood.
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