Setting of Place Setting
Salle des Etats is one room in Grand Gallery where the Mona Lisa is placed. It is the room where Jacques Sauniere places his next clue for Neveu and
Langdon. It can be proved by quotation below: Sophie arrived breathless outside the large wooden doors of the
Salle des Etats —the room that housed the Mona Lisa.
Brown, 2003: 108 Depository Bank of Zurich is the next place. A Swiss bank opens twenty
four hours and serves as a vault. It is well known of its secrecy. There is no name but only an account number. The bank does not know what the account number is
and what thing is saved in it, only client knows it. The job of the bank is to guarantee the anonymity of its client. It can be seen from this following quotation:
The Depository Bank of Zurich was a twenty-four-hour Geldschrank bank offering the full modern array of anonymous
services in the tradition of the Swiss numbered account. Maintaining offices in Zurich, Kuala Lumpur, New York, and
Paris, the bank had expanded its services in recent years to offer anonymous computer source code escrow services and
faceless digitized backup. The bread and butter of its operation was by far its oldest and
simplest offering
—the anonyme Lager—blind drop services, otherwise known as anonymous safe-deposit boxes. Clients
wishing to store anything from stock certificates to valuable paintings could deposit their belongings anonymously, through
a series of high-tech veils of privacy, withdrawing items at any time, also in total anonymity.
Brown, 2003: 176 The journey is continued to Château Villette. A historical mansion, built in
1668, inside the estate of la Petite Versailles is more appropriate to called it as a castle since it is completed by two rectangular lakes and garden. It is stated by
following quotation: The Sprawling 185-acre estate of Château Villette was located
twenty-five minutes northwest of Paris in the environs of
Versailles. Designed by François Mansart in 1668 for the Count of Aufflay, it was one of Pariss most significant
historical châteaux. Complete with two rectangular lakes and gardens designed by Le Nôtre, Château Villette was more of a
modest castle than a mansion. The estate fondly had become known as la Petite Versailles.
Brown, 2003: 220 Newton’s tomb is one of tombs in Westminster Abbey which Neveu and
Langdon look for. A tomb made by massive black marble with Sir Isaac Newton wearing classical costume and leaning against his works. A hard pyramid rises up
behind him. It is proved by this quotation below: Newtons tomb consisted of a massive black-marble
sarcophagus on which reclined the sculpted form of Sir Isaac Newton, wearing classical costume, and leaning proudly
against a stack of his own books —Divinity, Chronology,
Opticks, and Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. At Newtons feet stood two winged boys holding a scroll.
Behind Newtons recumbent body rose an austere pyramid. Although the pyramid itself seemed an oddity, it was the giant
shape mounted halfway up the pyramid that most intrigued the Teacher.
Brown, 2003: 397-398 Seven miles south of Edinburgh, Scotland, stands a chapel built by the
Knights Templar Rosslyn Chapel. Carved with symbols from Jewish, Christian, Egyptian, Masonic, and pagan traditions. Located on north south meridian, Rose
Line, this chapel gets its name. It can be proved by following quotation: Rosslyn Chapel
—often called the Cathedral of Codes—stands seven miles south of Edinburgh, Scotland, on the site of an
ancient Mithraic temple. Built by the Knights Templar in 1446, the chapel is engraved with a mindboggling array of symbols
from the Jewish, Christian, Egyptian, Masonic, and pagan traditions.
The chapels geographic coordinates fall precisely on the north- south meridian that runs through Glastonbury.
This longitudinal Rose Line is the traditional marker of King Arthurs Isle of Avalon and is considered the central pillar of
Britains sacred geometry. It is from this hallowed Rose Line that Rosslyn
—originally spelled Roslin—takes its name. Brown, 2003: 434