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WHAT IS THE PLOT OF THE DA VINCI CODE?

The complex story of The Da Vinci Code is one of intrigue and conspiracy. While in Paris on business, a Harvard professor named Robert Langdon receives an urgent call. The curator of the Louvre art museum has been found murdered. The police are baffled by an encoded message left by the dead man and written with his own blood. Langdon follows the trail of this mystery, which leads to clues left in the works of Leonardo Da Vinci. He joins forces with cryptologist Sophie Neveu, the curator's granddaughter, and together they discover that the dead curator was part of a secret society, the Priory of Sion, whose members included Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo, and Leonardo Da Vinci. Behind the scenes, a Catholic lay organization called Opus Dei is plotting to prevent the discovery of an ancient secret about the Holy Grail, kept hidden by the Priory of Sion for centuries. If discovered, the secret would shake the foundations of the church and the faith it has proclaimed for millennia.